This Book Began In The Mid 1970S After Historian And Author Evangeline Atwood Finished Her Sixth Book On Alaska. Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Executive Charles Gray And Ketchikan Daily News Publisher Lew Williams Jr. Urged Her To Write A History Of Alaska Newspaper. She Finished A Manuscript A History Of One Hundred Years Of Newspapering In Alaska 1885-1985 But Dies Of Cancer In 1987 Before It Could Be Published.