The River Ran Still: Adventure in Alaska

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This autobiography, written from Catherine Katie’s point of view, is about the survival skills of a wife and husband who defied the hostile elements, wild animals, and deprivations they encountered while homesteading in the wilderness along the Kenai River in Alaska in 1949-1962. Jack Coppock was a former member of the Tenth Mountain Infantry Ski Patrol and served in the Italian Alps during WWII, emerging with the reputation If you want to survive, stick with Jack ; whereas Katie was at first a timid housewife who honed her own survival skills as she encountered the challenges she faced.