Atwood Cutting was born while her parents were pioneering on a remote mountain top in Alaska. How fortunate for a little girl! Material for this saga comes from her personal family history. Luckily, her Grandma Tutu saved all of her mother's letters written from Sleeping Moose. This was a goldmine. Also, Atwood's mother took photographs and kept journals, which have proven invaluable. But the author's biggest source of information comes directly from the stories her mother used to share with her, about the years they spent in backwoods Alaska on Round Top Mountain.