She also was the author of the first book on Alaskan wildflowers – “Alaska Wildflowers” (Stanford University Press, c. Ida had love of wildflowers and worked to set up an Alaska wildflower seed business. To reach their new home site, they traveled by boat from Kenai Lake down the upper Kenai River, braving the rapids of the Kenai Canyon, and then crossed over to the south side of Skilak Lake where they built their homestead. “Two against the North” by Ida White Sharples - Ida White Sharples and her husband left Juneau in the late 1930s to build a remote homestead on the Kenai Peninsula. This book won a 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards/Memoir and also was an award-winning finalist in the 2014 USA Best Book Awards Autobiography/Memoir category. As Sam and Bonnie adapted to a remote life without modern day conveniences, they discovered the benefits of new friends, more time for each other, and the beautiful scenery of the Kenai Mountains and Skilak Lake. “Winds of Skilak” by Bonnie Rose Ward - Follow Bonnie and Sam Ward’s adventurous move from the suburbs of Ohio in 1980 to live “off the grid” on a private inholding on Caribou Island located in Skilak Lake (on Kenai National Wildlife Refuge).
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