Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
- ISBN-10
- 0307587835
- ISBN-13
- 9780307587831
- Category
- True Crime
- Pages
- 309
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-07
- Publisher
- Broadway Books
- Author
- Tom Kizzia
Description
Documents the story of Robert "Papa Pilgrim" Hale and the antiestablishment family settlement in remote Alaska that was eventually exposed as a cult-like prison where Hale brutalized and isolated his wife and 15 children, describing the torturous abuse endured by the family before his older children escaped and reported Hale to authorities. Reprint.
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- 2013-07-15
- 338 pages
- Paperback
- Crown Publishing Group (NY)
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