Ella Higginson 
Alaska, the Great Country 

Ella Higginson (1861–1940) was an American writer. She became the poet laureate of Washington State in 1931.  In addition to her poetry, she also published novels and short story collections, including The Flower that Grew in the Sand (1896), The Forest Orchid and Other Stories (1897), Mariella-of-Out-West (1902), Alaska the Great Country, and From the Land of Snow Pearls.