Pilgrim's wilderness
Subtitle: nature, family and the wrath of God in an Alaska ghost town
By: by Tom Kizzia
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780307587824; 9780307587848
Subjects: Abusive men; Criminals; Family; Dysfunctional families; Cults; Fundamentalists; Incest; Pioneers; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Third Month; title: Part One. Pilgrim's Trail; title: The Road to McCarthy; title: History's Shadow; title: The Bollard Wars; title: Sunlight and Firefly; title: Motorheads; title: The Rainbow Cross; title: Hostile Territory; title: Holy Bob and the Wild West; title: God vs. the Park Service; title: The Pilgrim's Progress; title: Part Two. The Farthest-Out Place; title: Hillbilly Heaven; title: Flight of the Angels; title: The Pilgrim Family Minstrels; title: Part Three. Out of the Wilderness; title: A Quiet Year; title: The Wanigan; title: Exodus; title: Pilgrim's Last Stand; title: The Man in the Iron Cage; title: Epilogue: Peaceful Harbor.