Boots, Bikes, and Bombers is an intimate biography of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoors-woman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in World War II and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to co-found Camp Denali, Alaska’s first wilderness ecotourism lodge, helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state’s first environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail construction and preservation.
An innovative and collaborative life history, Boots, Bikes, and Bombers is a valuable contribution to the history of Alaska as well as a testament to the joys of living a life full of passion and adventure.
Karen Brewster, Editor, is a research associate with the Oral History Program at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. She is the editor of The Whales, They Give Themselves: Conversations with Harry Brower, Sr.