Blue Hills, Alaska's Secret Door portrays through a strong woman and her family, a window into old Alaska and the characters that made Alaska a living legend. Today, Alaska is losing both its pioneer elders and the rugged, untamed life that originally defined its mystique. For forty years, Reb and Judy Ferguson have lived Alaska's wilderness life during the transition from yesterday's politically incorrect trappers to Alaska of today's global village. Blue Hills tracks both on a woman who decided in the 1960s to make her home in the wilderness, and through the Fergusons' canoe trips, on the major rivers and aboriginal people of Alaska, the Yukon Territory, and the Northwest Territories. Blue Hills is the transparent story of Judy Eskridge, a young, midwestern woman who had a dream in 1968 she could not let go: a dream of a longed-for place where life was visionary, a dream she called "Blue Hills." Judy reached for a life of simplicity beyond the fracturing world of the 1960s. Once a raw frontier, America had evolved into a competitive superpower, convulsed by deep rifts. Before the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, the boiling point of the 1960s' revolution, Judy left Oklahoma for Alaska. As she journeyed up the Alcan Highway, Senator Robert Kennedy was shot, a signal to Judy that the world and the life she desired might no longer exist in the Lower 48. A secret door opened for her into a fresh country of opportunity, The Great Land: Alaska, the epitome of America's frontier origins. Blue Hills, Alaska's Secret Door portraits the Fergusons' world - the disappearing lifestyle of trapping - of the Native people and the Caucasian hunters and traders. Together the trappers, traders, and Natives were Alaska's grass-roots people who were "Old Alaska."