Nellie B. Lawing

Nellie went to alaska at the age of 42. She ran a road house for the men who were putting trail road down from Anchorage to Seward the road house was at 45 mile and was renamed grandview. Nelliewas a pack rat never to get rid of noting the loved to talk the meet her husband in Seward, billie lawing and lived out together.

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Nellie Neal Lawing, familiar to Alaskans as “Alaska Nellie,” lived a life much larger than most, even by Alaskan standards. She was a fisherman, a hunter, a trapper, a cook and a roadhouse keeper; she fed the crews building the Alaska Railroad, welcomed princes and presidents into her home, guided big-game hunters and developed an impressive trophy collection of her own. She mushed a dog team, kept a pet bear cub, became famous for her strawberry pies, and saw a movie made about her adventures. She was one of a kind, an Alaskan original, and she lived life to the fullest.

Her happiest days were spent with the love of her life, Bill Lawing, in their log cabin on the shores of beautiful Kenai Lake. She mentions it in the opening paragraph of her autobiography, "Alaska Nellie"

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