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Among the Tlingits: The Letters of 1881-1883
Among the Tlingits The Letters of 1881-1883 Author:Carrie M. Willard Young Carrie Willard and her Presbyterian missionary husband arrived in Southeast Alaska in June of 1881. After passing through Fort Wrangell and spending time in Sitka, the couple establised their mission in crude quarters in the community they named Haines. There, among a subgroup of the Tlingit Indians known as the Chilkats, the Willards... more » began their work. An adventurous spirit and religious zeal carried Carrie through continual challenges and hardships--the raising of two toddlers in the wilds, life-threatening illnesses and lack of food, isolation from her own kin and culture, and the weaving and maintenance of a delicate interface between her family and the people she struggled both to understand and to change. Her story, told through letters she wrote to her parents, friends, and supporters, is an extraordinary tale of one woman's life in the Alaska wilderness of the 1880s. Includes 30 sketches by Carrie Willard.« less