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Pilgrim's Wilderness

a True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier
Feb 10, 2014dionyzus rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
A sad true story of a father calling himself Pilgrim who ruled his large family (a wife and 15 children) like a cult leader. The story ends up as a horrifying detailed description of family domestic violence. And although he made his family live like pioneers with almost no contact with the outside world, Pilgrim was actually on the periphery of fame, or infamy, twice in his life before the truth of his abuse of his family overshadowed all else. Interesting but depressing story, while in the end uplifting in the hope found by the abused survivors.