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My daughter found this today:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahill

We have no idea who put my mother on Wikipedia as “Alaskan Homesteader!”  In her own writings Mildred spells her middle name “Anne.”  We do not have a copy of her birth certificate, but I might need to get one before I spell her name on these books!  She homesteaded as Mildred (Ann?  Anne?) Cahill LLOYD, though!

Well, I DID IT!  Today I completed volume three of my mother’s writings and here is the link – (links at bottom for first two volumes — and there’s no good way to do columns straight on this WordPress blog – oh well!):

*HOPE FOR A MOUNTAIN: MILDRED’S ALASKAN HOMESTEADING TALE – VOLUME THREE – IN THE THICK OF HOMESTEADING

PART ONE:  THE WORLD MUST STAY WIDE OPEN AND WE’LL CRACK IT

ONE                I wish, I want – WHAT?

TWO              We Did It Just In Time

THREE         Treat of Hot Rolls and Celery

FOUR            Today Is Today and I’ll Figure Next Winter Later

FIVE              We’ve Proved We Can Take It Hard and Tough

SIX                  I Must Straighten Out My Life First

PART TWO:  WONDER IF I’M DOING RIGHT EVEN FOR ONE SUMMER 

SEVEN          Anything Is Possible

EIGHT           I’m Fed Up To the Gills with Living Like This

NINE               One Step Forward and Ten Backward

TEN                  It Was a Thoroughly Mixed Up Affair

ELEVEN          360 Pounds of Meat

TWELVE        Maybe When We Return Someday

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*HOPE FOR A MOUNTAIN: MILDRED’S ALASKAN HOMESTEADING TALE – VOLUME ONE – BEGINNING A DREAM

PART ONE:  WAITING AND THE LOVE LETTERS

ONE               Don’t Ever Leave Me Again (14)

TWO             Find Me a House So I Can Come Home (49)

THREE          If You Care About Me and Our Future (73)

FOUR           Fear of Sand in the New Car (108)

FIVE              The Worst Is Over With (140)

PART TWO:  ARRIVING NORTH AND SETTLING IN

SIX                  So Keen on Alaska (172)

SEVEN          No Hicks Here (197)

EIGHT           Now That the Trees Are Bare (235)

NINE              He Will Do the Winter Driving (262)

TEN                All Mean Well I Guess (As Women Can) (297)

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*HOPE FOR A MOUNTAIN: MILDRED’S ALASKAN HOMESTEADING TALE – VOLUME TWO – LIVING FOR THE LAND

PART ONE:  IT WILL WORK OUT ONE MOVE AT A TIME

ONE             Bill Will File on the Land Tomorrow

TWO            On a Merry Chase from Morn to Morn – and I’m Not Kidding

THREE        I’ll Homestead In Summertime, thank you!

FOUR          Oh How, Oh How Will I Ever Manage??

FIVE            We’re Both So Upset and Yet Determined

SIX               I’ll Give Up Anything for Our Homestead

PART TWO:  SUCH BEAUTY FOR INSPIRATION AND PEACE THAT CAN’T BE FOUND IN TODAY’S CIVILIZATION

SEVEN           Little Pieces of This Rock

EIGHT           Stick To My Land Here Like Glue

NINE              How Much Of a Beating Can We Take?

TEN                We Belong On Our Land for All Time

ELEVEN        It’s Really an Almost HOLY Feeling

TWELVE       Homesteaders Even In Alaska Are Becoming Extinct

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