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I need to find proof readers to help with the next stage for this manuscript, but the main work on the abbreviated version of my mother’s Alaskan homesteading tale is finished — for now:

*Mildred’s Mountain: A Bare-Bones True Alaskan Homesteading Tale

at this link if the above doesn’t work:

http://hopeforamountain.wordpress.com/mildreds-mountain-a-bare-bones-true-alaskan-homesteading-tale/

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PART ONE:  TRANSITIONS

(1)  The Mask Is Slipping

(2)  A House to Put Our Home In

(3)  A Bit of Heaven in the Woods

(4)  I’ll Live Where I Please

PART TWO:  THE LAND HAS BEEN FOUND

(5)  Go Ahead and I’ll Follow

(6)  I Don’t Want to Back Down Now

(7)  Maybe Someday It Will All Seem Funny

PART THREE:  THOSE CRAZY PEOPLE LIVING ON THAT LONELY MOUNTAIN

(8)  I See So Little of My Husband Now

(9)  If I Had a Nursery

(10)  We Belong On Our Land for All Time

(11)  It’s Really an Almost HOLY Feeling

(12)  Have You Ever Had Mountain Fever?

PART FOUR:  I’VE REROLLED MY SLEEVES – AND FULL STEAM AHEAD

(13)  Treat of Hot Rolls and Celery

(14)  In Love with This Crazy Land

(15)  A Road and a Darn Good One

(16)  Gone At It All In the Worst Way

PART FIVE:  THE DAM HAS BROKEN AND THE FLOOD IS LOOSE

(17)  Nobody Can Push Me Away from Our Homestead

(18)  One Step Forward and Ten Backward

(19)  We Can’t Stand the Thought of Shifting

(20)  At This Point I Wish We Could Sell the Homestead

PART SIX:  IF WE CAN’T STAY WE WILL LEAVE.  SIMPLE AS THAT.

(21)  I Want a Home But Where!

(22)  I Need to Be Part of the World

(23) 160 Acres of Alaska Belongs to You and Me

(Appendix A)  Mildred’s Story of the March 27, 1964 Great Alaskan Earthquake

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