SOUTH

TO

ALASKA


 From the Heartland of America
to the Heart of a Dream...
 
About the Author

Nancy Owens Barnes not only watched her parents' dream weave its way through the lives of her family, but she boarded the Red Dog for the first leg of its journey along the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. Born in eastern Oklahoma, and raised in Oklahoma and Arkansas, she moved to Alaska after the Red Dog's arrival there in 1973. She lived in Alaska twenty-five years before moving to northern Idaho in 1999. Barnes received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Vermont College of Norwich University where she studied creative writing. She is a member of the Idaho Writers League and the Pacific Northwest Writers Association. South to Alaska is her first book.
Nancy Owens Barnes

Winner of the Idaho Writers League 2007 Jessie Cameron Alison Writer of the Year Award

Photos Left to Right:

Author and her mother, Cecil Marie, 1951.
Author and her brothers on their Oklahoma farm, 1952.
Author and her father on construction site, 1961.
Author and her parents aboard Red Dog after launch on Arkansas River, Fort Smith, 1971. (Photo courtesy of Southwest Times Record)

SOUTH TO ALASKA

by Nancy Owens Barnes

New Leaf Books, 2007

 

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© Copyright 2007 Nancy Owens Barnes
::: I am grateful to my brother Jerry and my late brother Donald for permission and use of a number of their photographs in this website. :::