On this episode of Our American Stories David LaBelle's last memory of his mother was seeing her washed away in a raging flood when he was a senior in high school She would never be found It took David years to wrestle with the loss and eventually he decided to write a semi-fictional book about the event called Bridges amp Angels as a therapeutic exercise David's books and photos can be found on his website Support the show https www ouramericanstories com donate See omnystudio com listener for privacy information [... more]

On this episode of Our American Stories David LaBelle's last memory of his mother was seeing her washed away in a raging flood when he was a senior in high school She would never be found It took David years to wrestle with the loss and eventually he decided to write a semi-fictional book about the event called Bridges amp Angels as a therapeutic exercise No woman figured more prominently on the Yukon and Alaskan frontiers than Belinda Mulrooney She gained international fame as the richest woman in the Klondike and made and lost more than one fortune She became [... more]