Cottage Cove

A college Senior works one summer in 1949 as a towboatman on the MacDonald, running freight barges from Tacoma to Valdez. His adventures lead him to an isolated clapboard shack on Cottage Cove. Enthralled by the pristine grandeur of Alaska's Inland Passage and stirred by the active imagination of his pioneer spirit, Bill Pardue exercises his veteran's rights to homestead the primitive site. In the wilderness stretch south of Ketchikan, Bill seeks to make a place for himself in the evolving Territory of Alaska, As a chechako to the people he meets and befriends, he accepts the challenges of hard work, privation, and solitude in developing Cottage Cove and his new life. Tenacious courage and friendly relationships with territorial citizens mark him as a man all come to know as an Alaskan.