Who is Missy Peckham from Alaska and what is their importance? Alaska_(novel) English & Literature Missy Peckham | Alaska

Missy Peckham was from Chicago. She lived with Ben Venn and had raised Tom, who lived with them. She went to Alaska with Ben and Tom. After Ben's death, Missy and Tom went to Dawson City, where she operated a restaurant tent and then worked at a hospital in Nome. She eventually moved to Juneau with Matt Murphy. Missy supported Alaskan statehood and died at the age of eighty-three on the day Alaska became the forty-ninth state.