Ok, the forerunner she surely was. I prefer less canonical descriptions of her though.
Caribou Barbie, Dumb-Ass of the North, Snowbilly and 'Miss I Read All of Em' as in I read none of 'em. Seriously, stirred from a dead sleep she should have been able to rattle off Anchorage Times, USA Today, Guns and Ammo, Field and Stream, and the Wasilla Moose.