Aunt Phil's Trunk Volume 2 Author:Laurel Downing Bill Filled with more than 300 historical photographs, this book spotlights Alaska's colorful history from the hopeful Klondikers of the 1890s who climbed the Chilkoot Trail in search of golden dreams to the first lawmen who tried to tame a vast, lawless land. This volume also shares stories of rugged pioneers who mushed through virgin land to set... more » up the Last Frontier's postal system and hardy adventurers who first climbed the treacherous, icy slopes of St. Elias and Denali, the highest mountain in North America. This volume closes with firsthand accounts from folks who lived through the eruption of Mount Katmai in 1912 when the sky turned black for days and people thought the world had come to an end.« less