Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Into the Wild*meets*Helter Skelter*in this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in the deepest reaches of the Alaskan wilderness - and of the chilling secrets of its maniacal, spellbinding patriarch.
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When Papa Pilgrim appeared in the Alaska frontier outpost of McCarthy with his wife and fifteen children in tow, his new neighbors had little idea of the trouble to come.* The Pilgrim Family presented themselves as a shining example of the homespun Christian ideal, with their...