Samme Gallaher offers a lively collection of stories about haunted roadhouses, bizarre animal behavior, weird weather, frontier justice, an unwitting “good time girl,” and an assortment of characters who inhabited Alaska’s remote Copper River Valley between the Klondike Gold Rush and World War II.
Samme Gallaher was the 3rd and youngest daughter of Blanche Gillham Gallaher and Samuel LeRoy Gallaher (usually known as Roy), who settled in Fresno, CA when Samme was still a baby. A hugely defining event in her life occurred at age 15, when her oldest sister, Aileen, asked their parents to let Samme come live in Alaska with her and her husband, Slim Williams, in a cabin in the Copper River Valley. There she learned to drive a dog team, shoot a rifle and hunt caribou, and many other skills required to live in the wilderness year round. Her book, Sisters: Coming of Age and Living Dangerously in the Copper River Valley, tells the story of her adventures in Alaska in 1927-28 and again when she returned in 1929-30.
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