[1] Armine Von Tempski's autobiographies and novels were based on her early life among the paniolos (cowboys) on the Haleakala cattle ranch[5] atop the Haleakalā shield volcano.
The young Armine, then sixteen years old,[8] asked London to read some of her stories and give his opinion.
Her first published writing, in the early 1920s,[3] was about efforts to restore the island of Kahoolawe after years of drought and overgrazing.
[9] They were friends of poet Don Blanding,[10] who illustrated von Tempski's book, Ripe Breadfruit (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935).
The Ox Bow Press in Woodbridge, Connecticut, publishes reprint editions of von Tempski's books.