Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides a fascinating cross-section of Alaskan history through this well researched story. Coghlan tells the story through a narrative history, over 200 historic pictures and historical biographies. Who were the first people in the Upper Cook Inlet area? When? What is a "Wasilla?" Why are there so many lakes in the Wasilla area? What settlers were in the area before there was a Wasilla? Why is Wasilla where it is? Of the 52 first purchasers of Wasilla lots in 1917, who were the eight families left by 1920? How did national events shape Wasilla? What was life like for the early settlers? The colonists? The post-World War II homesteaders? Find the answers to these and many more questions in this centennial history of Wasilla and the area.
