Tom Kizzia

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier (2013)

I probably would have enjoyed Tom Kizzia's coverage of this story in the Anchorage Daily News in 2002, but I don't think it works in book form. At least not in the form of this book. Robert Hale transformed himself from scandalized privileged Texas son into Papa Pilgrim, a pioneering Alaskan sq...