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Volume 1
 "Aunt Phil's Trunk: Volume 1," released in 2006, is flying off bookstore shelves in Alaska. The 344-page soft-cover book, which retails for $19.95, features stories about Alaska’s rich history and was written by late Alaska historian Phyllis Downing Carlson and her niece, Laurel Downing Bill.
Filled with close to 300 historical photographs, this volume showcases a spectacular photo essay following the harrowing routes rugged prospectors traveled to get to the Klondike, including the all-water route from Seattle to St. Michael and on to Dawson, as well as the Stikine, White Pass and Chilkoot Pass trails.
Volume 1 features other fascinating stories, too, including how nuns mingled with rough and tumble adventurers on the banks of Nome, how the last shot of the Civil War boomed in the Bering Sea and how the scoundrel Soapy Smith served as an angel of mercy before he became the undisputed king of crime in Skagway.
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