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Author Kizzia, Tom.

Title Pilgrim's wilderness : a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska frontier / Tom Kizzia.

Imprint New York : Crown Publishers, c2013.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Non-Fiction  979.805 Kiz    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xx, 309 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Pilgrim's trail. The road to McCarthy ; History's shadow ; The Bollard wars ; Sunlight and firefly ; Motorheads ; The Rainbow Cross ; Hostile territory ; Holy Bob and the Wild West ; God vs. the Park Service ; The Pilgrim's Progress -- The farthest-out place. Hillbilly heaven ; Flight of the angels ; The Pilgrim Family Minstrels -- Out of the wilderness. A quiet year ; The Wanigan ; Exodus ; Pilgrim's last stand ; The man in the iron cage.
Summary Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and fifteen children.
Local Note 52
Subject Hale, Robert (Robert Allen), 1941-2008.
Hale, Robert (Robert Allen), 1941-2008 -- Family.
Pioneers -- Alaska -- McCarthy -- Biography.
Fundamentalists -- Alaska -- McCarthy -- Biography.
Criminals -- Alaska -- McCarthy -- Biography.
Abusive men -- Alaska -- McCarthy -- Biography.
McCarthy (Alaska) -- Biography.
Dysfunctional families -- Alaska -- McCarthy.
Incest -- Alaska -- McCarthy.
Cults -- Alaska -- McCarthy.
ISBN 9780307587824 (hbk.)
0307587827 (hbk.)

 
    
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