In 1962 Mary Carey, newly widowed, drove the Alcan Highway alone from Texas to Alaska, where she would make herself a new life. And her life there - whether she was teaching in an eight-pupil pilot school in Talkeetna, flying Mt. McKinley with bush pilot Don Sheldon, or homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness - was one of continuous pioneering. A crackerjack photojournalist ¿- she obtained exclusive eyewitness coverage of the 1964 earthquake in Kodiak, Seward, and Valdez - Ms. Carey won five first prizes in an Alaskan Press Clubs contest in 1963. She did not re-enter the contest until 1974, at…mehr
In 1962 Mary Carey, newly widowed, drove the Alcan Highway alone from Texas to Alaska, where she would make herself a new life. And her life there - whether she was teaching in an eight-pupil pilot school in Talkeetna, flying Mt. McKinley with bush pilot Don Sheldon, or homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness - was one of continuous pioneering. A crackerjack photojournalist ¿- she obtained exclusive eyewitness coverage of the 1964 earthquake in Kodiak, Seward, and Valdez - Ms. Carey won five first prizes in an Alaskan Press Clubs contest in 1963. She did not re-enter the contest until 1974, at which time the lady walked off with three more first prizes. Previously, in 1955, she won the National True Story Award - a $5,000 prize. Mary Carey was the owner and proprietor of Mary's McKinley View Lodge, which she built on her homestead in 1972. There she baked sixty-four pies each day, welcomed guests, gave lectures to tourists, and somehow found time for rock hunting and writing. Mary died suddenly at the age of 91, on June 18, 2004, at her beloved Mary's McKinley View Lodge. She left a rich legacy and a loving family from a life well-lived.
To say Mary Carey led an exciting life would be putting it mildly. Born into what was once a wealthy Georgia family, she ended up in Texas as a child after the family's wealth was wiped out. She eventually eloped and married a man who would become a prison convict and escapee. Carey soon found herself on the run with her outlaw husband and pursued by the law.With her outlaw husband's capture and imprisonment, Carey moved on with her life and soon found love and established a stable family with a World War II veteran. She also became an award-winning writer, and plans were made to build a cabin cruiser and make a sea voyage from Texas to Alaska. Unfortunately, her husband passed away suddenly from a heart attack. While most women would have been devasted by the setbacks in life Mary Carey had been dealt, she decided to continue her late husband's dream and headed to Alaska. In Alaska, Carey became a pioneer, businesswoman, writer, photographer, and eventually a true Alaskan legend. She wrote hundreds of articles, wrote more than a dozen books, and in 1997 Eakin Press published Mary Carey's autobiography, My Three Lives in Headlines.Carey died suddenly at the age of 91, on June 18, 2004, at her beloved Mary's McKinley View Lodge in Trapper Creek, Alaska. She left a rich legacy and a loving family from a life well-lived.
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