Pilgrim's wilderness : a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska frontier

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9780307587824 (hbk.) :
ISBN: 0307587827 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780307587848 (ebook)
ISBN: 0307587843 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
xx, 309 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, c2013.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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