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The Winter of '79 is the true story of one particular winter season that spanned the gap from 1979 to 1980 with a lot of nasty weather in between. We know about it because Kate, alone on a mountain top with no phone and no one over the age of one to talk to, wrote letters to her mamasan in Hawaii. Her mom kept the letters. Kate also penned a journal. Between the two written sources and more than one hundred original photographs, a person can get a pretty good feel for what an Alaskan winter in an isolated and remote setting can be like. On top of their remote mountain, Kate and baby Atwood are holding down the fort and keeping the home fires burning, while Tim is commuting to a job in Kenai. His daily trips through woods on an antique snow-machine are inherently dangerous, and he is battling constant sickness. With luck, he will make it home each night. Suddenly, living in a winter wilderness is not as fun as they had imagined it would be. Will this winter of '79 be the deal breaker to their Jack London and Ralph Waldo Emerson-inspired Transcendental hybrid odyssey?

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One exceptional attribute of [Cutting's] story is its depiction. Alaska's wilderness beauty is captured in descriptions that impart a you are there feel of her surroundings. . . highly recommended for memoir readers who like their accounts spiced with the passion of a pioneering spirit of adventure . . . D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

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"Atwood is a figment. (I think that's the word.) She and Kate are one and the same. So, at least I could say that Atwood is a fragment. The author follows her dreams And her own Tim follows her. Kate Peters graduated with a major in Performing Arts from the University of Hawaii and then ventured north to Alaska, ""to see a real winter."" While working as a Bullcook in a Trans-Alaska Pipeline construction camp north of the Arctic Circle, she and her partner-in-adventure eloped. Later, they homesteaded on the Kenai Peninsula for more than a decade. Her daughter's creative nonfiction memoir, ""Sleeping Moose Saga,"" covers those years. She now lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and adventure partner of forty-five years."

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