Blue Hills, Alaska's Promised Land

Blue Hills, Alaska's Promised Land portrays through a strong woman and her 

family, a window into old Alaska and the characters that made Alaska a living legend. Today, Alaska is losing 

both its pioneer elders and the rugged, untamed life that originally defined its mystique. Adventure with horses 

and dogs, canoes and kayaks, Blue Hills is the dreamed of Alaska life. Judy and Reb met in Alaska six years 

before the Trans-Alaska Pipeline began its transformation of traditional Alaska. Judy reached for a life of 

simplicity beyond the fracturing world of the 1960s. Once a raw frontier, America had evolved into a competitive 

superpower, convulsed by deep rifts. Before the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, the boiling point of the

1960s' revolution, Judy left Oklahoma for Alaska. As she journeyed up the Alcan Highway, Senator Robert 

Kennedy was shot, a signal to Judy that the world and the life she desired might no longer exist in the Lower 

48.Carrying on the legacy of the old pioneers, Reb and Judy Ferguson typified the Bush network from the 

Copper, Tanana, Yukon, and Kobuk rivers of Alaska to the Porcupine and Mackenzie River Valleys in Canada. 

Short vignettes with photos on every page, Blue Hills is Alaska's personal story: the evolution from old to new, 

the very human story of the woman and her family who lived it. 


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