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Search - Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
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Arctic Homestead The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds Author: In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower Forty-eight and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Ci... more »
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Judi S. reviewed Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds on + 19 more book reviews
5 member(s) found this review helpful.
Once you start reading this book you won't be able to put it down. Experience the Cobb Familys trials, tribulations and triumphs living in the Alaskan Wilderness where neighbors are few and what residents live in the desolate area do to take the law in their own hands.
A great book to read, Its one book I can't beg to part with.
A great book to read, Its one book I can't beg to part with.
Carole L. (fightpilotswife) reviewed Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds on + 11 more book reviews
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Super fast read & a wonderful view into the life of the last official homesteader in the US.
Genres:
- Biographies & Memoirs >> General
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Regional U.S. >> West
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Specific Groups >> Adventurers & Explorers
- Biographies & Memoirs >> Memoirs
- Science & Math >> Nature & Ecology >> General