Williamsburg Regional Library

Pilgrim's wilderness, a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska Frontier, Tom Kizzia

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Pilgrim's wilderness

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Tom Kizzia

a true story of faith and madness on the Alaska Frontier

In Pilgrim<U+2019>s Wilderness, veteran Alaska journalist Tom Kizzia unfolds the remarkable, at times harrowing, story of a charismatic spinner of American myths who was not what he seemed, the townspeople caught in his thrall, and the family he brought to the brink of ruin. As Kizzia discovered, Papa Pilgrim was in fact the son of a rich Texas family with ties to Hoover<U+2019>s FBI and strange, oblique connections to the Kennedy assassination and the movie stars of Easy Rider. And as his fight with the government in Alaska grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue. In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive

Pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The farthest-out place. Hillbilly heaven ; Flight of the angels ; The Pilgrim Family Minstrels -- pt. 3. Out of the wilderness. A quiet year ; The Wanigan ; Exodus ; Pilgrim's last stand ; The man in the iron cage

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