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Gallery
(From Melissa's Memoir — The Call of the Last Frontier: The True Story of a Woman's Twenty-Year Alaska Adventure)
Gallery

Elgin (29) and Melissa (27) Cook Interview with Aleutians East
Anchorage, Alaska - April 1995

The Village of Nelson Lagoon, Alaska
Photo taken by Lee Anne McDermott in 1994

Teacher Housing Units in Nelson Lagoon
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1995

PenAir's Piper Navajo Arriving with Passengers, Mail, and Freight
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Japanese Glass Float or Ball
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Frisbee-size Jellyfish
Anchorage, Alaska - April 1995

Santa Visits Ethan (5), Sutton (8), and Everett (7) at the Nelson Lagoon Runway
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

The Polar Bear Barge
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Melissa Cook (age 29) on St. Paul Island on the Bering Sea
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Pavlof Volcano at 48 Miles Away
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

The Eruption of Pavlof Volcano
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Tom Madsen's 1959 Beechcraft 18 - the Aleutian Spirit
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Melissa Cook (age 29) Teaching Elementary
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Sutton (9), Melissa (29) and Everett (8) Waiting for a PenAir Flight
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

The Cook Family - Ethan (6), Sutton (9), Everett (8), Melissa (29) and Elgin (31) After the Christmas Party
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - 1996

Snake Eyes (Sam Egli) Grocery Run to Nelson Lagoon
Nelson Lagoon, Alaska - December 1996

1997 Cook Job Search CD - Front Cover
Photo from Wyoming in the summer of 1994

1997 Cook Job Search CD - Back Cover
photo from May 1996 in Alberta, Canada

Car Deck of an Alaska Marine Highway Ferry
Bellingham, Washington - August 1997

Elgin (31) and Melissa (30) Cook on the Malaspina Ferry
Inside Passage, Alaska - August 1997

Everett (9), Ethan (7) and Sutton (10) on the Malaspina Ferry
Ketchikan, Alaska - August 1997

The Aurora Ferry Docked at Prince of Wales Island
Ketchikan, Alaska - 1997

City of Craig Harbor & Dock
Craig, Alaska - 1997

Melissa Cook (30) at Sandy Beach for the First Time
Sandy Beach, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - 1997

Sutton (10), Everett (9), Ethan (7) and Elgin (31) Visiting Sandy Beach
Sandy Beach, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska - August 1997
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