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Mel Adkins describes life in Alaska in the early days and nights of statehood by a family group from the plains of Oklahoma. They discovered to be inventive and self-reliant in a land untouched by humans after moving more than 12 miles from the nearest street, to a 160-acre homestead on the Kenai Peninsula. To a young man just stepping into his teens this was a dream come true, but the physical labor that needed to be done the first 12 months, simply to make it through, was more than he had ever imagined. Lowering firewood with a manual mix cut saw, packing water from the spring, working on a sawmill, and packing supplies in to the homestead on his backside left little time for hunting and fishing. The family almost starved and froze away that first 12 months, but sheer perseverence, stubbornness, and rugged determination for a much better way of life persevered; a family group of the greenest cheechackos that ever homesteaded in the land of the midnight sunlight.
