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Janette Ross Riehle

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Anchorage, Alaska, The United States

Genre

Memoir

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Janette Ross Riehle was born in Anchorage, Alaska, as the oldest of four children. For the first six years of her life she and her family lived in a log cabin, forty miles from Anchorage by air and a two-day trip across Cook Inlet and up Alexander Creek by boat. She learned to read when she was five years old and has been an avid reader ever since. In addition, writing, in one form or another, has held a lifelong fascination for her. Having spent most of her childhood living in and exploring the outdoors, she still enjoys hiking, fishing, and (occasionally) hunting. She also puts in a large garden each summer, growing both vegetables and lots of flowers.

After graduating from Anchorage High School (now West High) in 1956, she went on to Lewi Janette Ross Riehle was born in Anchorage, Alaska, as the oldest of four children. For the first six years of her life she and her family lived in a log cabin, forty miles from Anchorage by air and a two-day trip across Cook Inlet and up Alexander Creek by boat. She learned to read when she was five years old and has been an avid reader ever since. In addition, writing, in one form or another, has held a lifelong fascination for her. Having spent most of her childhood living in and exploring the outdoors, she still enjoys hiking, fishing, and (occasionally) hunting. She also puts in a large garden each summer, growing both vegetables and lots of flowers.

After graduating from Anchorage High School (now West High) in 1956, she went on to Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR on a National Merit Scholarship. She married Wallace Riehle during her senior year of college. Five years later, Wallace's job with the US Department of Agriculture took the family, which now included two daughters and one son, back to Palmer, Alaska. By the time they left the state in 1980, they had also lived in Wrangell, Juneau, and Soldotna.

In 1982, with her children grown, Janette returned to college in Indiana and during the next several years earned two Master's degrees in counseling. In addition to being ordained, pastoring one church and later serving on staff at another, she was also credentialed with the American Association of Pastoral Counseling. Returning to Alaska in 1993, she and her husband pastored a church in Homer for several years and she continued to do private practice counseling until 2010. The couple moved back to Palmer in 2000 and now live on several acres of her grandparents' original homestead. Over the more than 50 years of their marriage, their family has grown to include eight grandchildren and three great granddaughters.

In 2005, fulfilling a lifelong dream of telling the story of her family's part in the history of Alaska, she published the paperback Tales of the Trapline. The sequel, Tales of the Fishing Beach, came out in 2010. She has recently re-edited the books and created the 4-book Growing up Wild series of e-books. ...more

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	To the Wilds of Alaska: A New Life in the Alaskan Wilderness (Growing Up Wild #1) by Janette Ross Riehle, Vernon Ross (Narrator), Sylvia Ross (Narrator) 4.14 avg rating — 527 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Cabin in the Wilderness: Raising a Family in Old Alaska (Growing Up Wild #2) by Janette Ross Riehle, Vernon Ross (Narrator), Sylvia Ross (Narrator) 4.31 avg rating — 494 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Return to the Wilderness: The Final Years off the Grid (Growing up Wild #4) by Janette Ross Riehle, Vernon Ross (Narrator), Sylvia Ross (Narrator) 4.46 avg rating — 325 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children of the Wilderness: New Homes in New Places (Growing Up Wild #3) by Janette Ross Riehle, Vernon Ross (Narrator), Sylvia Ross (Narrator) 4.34 avg rating — 323 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be Still and Know: 31 Devotional Thoughts About God's Great Outdoors 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Trapline: A Romance of Old Alaska 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tales of the Fishing Beach: Growing Up in 'Old' Alaska 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars