Kathrene Pinkerton (June 9, 1887 – September 6, 1967) was a fiction and nonfiction writer whose writings focused on life in the northern wilderness of Canada.
[2] Upon graduating, Pinkerton went on to conduct social work, focusing on tuberculosis outbreaks in rural Wisconsin.
There, they built their own cabin and learned how to survive in a region where the nearest village was 8 miles (13 km) away and could only be reached by canoe in summer and by dogsled in winter.
[2] In 1917, the family moved to Colorado and later California before choosing to live on a 50-foot (15 m) boat off the British Columbia and Alaska coasts from 1924 to 1931.
[1] Originally only intending to live there three months, the family spent seven years there, with Kathrene as the mate, Robert as the skipper, and daughter Bobs as the quartermaster when on vacation from boarding school.