Cry in the Wilderness details the history of over two hundred years of Christian missionary activity in Alaska. TABLE OF CONTENTS IAlaska Under the Russian Flag IIThe First American Missions in Southeast Alaska IIIMissionaries and Gold Seekers Push to the North IVFirst Missions Along the Arctic Coast VReindeer and Gold Bring Changes to the Arctic Coast VISouthcentral Alaska--Children's Homes and Moravians Along the Kuskokwim VIIAlaskan Churches Face New Challenges Tay Thomas began to write poetry as a child, with her first prose poem published in a New York City newspaper when she was seventeen. Since then she has gone on to author five books including Cry in the Wilderness, My War with Worry, and An Angel On His Wing. Since 1970 she has been the gardener of St. Mary's Episcopal church in Anchorage, Alaska, where she lives with her husband Lowell.