On December 16, 1941, the signature of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established officially what we know today as the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. When Harry Johnson first arrived on the Kenai Peninsula in 1904, he found few people, scattered settlements, no roads and only a few trails, Despite such isolation, Johnson never faltered. He eschewed horses and dog teams, instead of toting his supplies in a backpack to his trapping cabin near Resurrection Creek. The application to place this cabin on the historical registry called Johnson "a perfectionist who impressed all that met him by his extreme neatness. He kept his remote cabins neat and tidy, He trimmed the grass around his cabins, and outlined flowerbeds with stones. To enter his cabins, a person used and antler-handled sliding door latch, and once inside they observed a hook, rod or shelf for every object." Johnson's cabin, and Steve Melchior's cabin, are two of about 150 historic structures included in this book and located within the two-million-acre Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. The people who build and lived in them ranged from multi-generational Native Families to European immigrants and American settlers who began populating refuge lands in the 1880s. Authors Gary Titus and Clark Fair have documented the structures and recaptured much of their past, including historic maps and many rarely viewed photographs of the cabins and the builders themselves.