Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
by Norma Cobb, Charles W. Sasser, Charles Sasser

Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival  and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
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Author: Charles Sasser, Charles W. Sasser, Norma Cobb
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-02-01
ISBN: 0312283792
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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Book Review: Artic Tundra
Summary: 4 Stars

Good story that keep the reader interested, as there is always something new happening to this family. For those who thought getting land for free (homesteading) in Alaska by working the property and improving it, this book will open you eyes to the DARK truth of homesteading in Alaska..BIG FOOT LIVES..

Summary of Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and their five child-ren, the oldest of whom was nine years old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower 48 and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fair-banks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans twenty to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory ani-mals, the Alaskan frontier also drew society's more unsavory human elements. But through it all, the family survived on the strength of Norma Cobb-a woman whose love for her family knew no bounds and whose courage in the face of mortal danger is an inspiration.

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