Subtitled: "Coming of Age & Living Dangerously in the Wild Copper River Valley." In 1926, Aileen Gallaher, a beautiful young woman, runs away from her difficult life in California, traveling alone by train to Seattle, then by steamship to Valdez, Alaska, where she is met by trapper Clyde C. "Slim" Williams and travels deep into the Copper River Valley. The only thing missing is female companionship. Enter Samme, Aileen's irrepressible teenage sister.