She left Virginia with a mule,
a revolver, and nothing to lose.
At twenty-two, Courtney Joanne trades the settled East for the raw Alaskan Territory at the tail end of the Klondike Gold Rush. Armed with her father's Colt and pure stubborn will, she builds a tiny cabin between two boulders, faces down circling wolves, masters the deadly art of dog mushing, and learns to survive β and thrive β as a solo trapper in one of the deadliest landscapes on earth.