Pilgrim's wilderness

nature, family and the wrath of God in an Alaska ghost town

309 pages

English language

Published 2013 by Crown.

ISBN:
978-0-307-58782-4
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OCLC Number:
794227933

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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.

3 editions

Subjects

  • Abusive men
  • Criminals
  • Family
  • Dysfunctional families
  • Cults
  • Fundamentalists
  • Incest
  • Pioneers
  • Biography

Places

  • McCarthy (Alaska)
  • Alaska
  • McCarthy