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Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Original Title:	Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
ISBN:	0312283792 (ISBN13: 9780312283797)
Edition Language:	English

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In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester, and the their five children, the oldest of whom was nine-years-old and the youngest, twins, barely one, pulled up stakes in the Lower Forty-eight and headed north to Alaska to follow a pioneer dream of claiming land under the Homestead Act. The only land available lay north of Fairbanks near the Arctic Circle where grizzlies outnumbered humans twenty to one. In addition to fierce winters and predatory animals, the Alaskan frontier drew the more unsavory elements of society's fringes. From the beginning, the Cobbs found themselves pitted in a life or death feud with unscrupulous neighbors who would rob from new settlers, attempt to burn them out, shoot them, and jump their claim.

The Cobbs were chechakos, tenderfeet, in a lost land that consumed even toughened settlers. Everything, including their "civilized" past, conspired to defeat them. They constructed a cabin and the first snow collapsed the roof. They built too close to the creek and spring breakup threatened to flood them out. Bears prowled the nearby woods, stalking the children, and Lester Cobb would leave for months at a time in search of work.

But through it all, they survived on the strength of Norma Cobb---a woman whose love for her family knew no bounds and whose courage in the face of mortal danger is an inspiration to us all. Arctic Homestead is her story.

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Title	:	Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds
Author	:	Norma Cobb
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 24th 2003 by St. Martin's Griffin (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Adventure. Survival

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What a story! The last woman to file a homestead claim in Alaska, her husband and five small children decide to pull up stakes from Colorado and get back to nature in Alaska. They have no money, no resources, very few assets, and it takes them more than a year just to get to their claim, which proves to be a great disappointment. Then they discover their real destiny in a beautiful, remote valley. Along the way, there are run-ins with drunken locals, a gunfight standoff in the street like an old

I read this book years ago as we transported our son up to Wasilla Alaska to play junior hockey. This book was in a local bookstore there and our entire family has read it. This memoir painted a complete picture of some of the people who made the trek to Alaska to take advantage of the Homestead Act. My own cousin made the same journey decades ago and still resides on his homestead. So we all were engaged through the whole book to see how this family tackled each of its next hurdles. Ive passed

Great story that balances the romantic notion of Alaskan homesteading with the trials and hardships that it takes to make it happen. Easy, entertaining read.

I wanted to be Norma Cobb.... except maybe not in Alaska. I really enjoyed this book about the last female pioneer to homestead in America's last frontier.

This is an amazingly adventurous story of a familys journey to the Alaskan bush! Watch out, it might make you want to move to Alaska!

Arctic homestead Book review Arctic homestead by Norma Cobb and Charles w. Sasser. Arctic homestead is a book were a family moved from America to Alaska. This book contains a lot of action, thought, and surprises. The main characters are, Les, Sid, Sean, Tom, Cara, and Cora. The main characters wife is Donna Sue. One thing the author did very well is give the book a story line. This book has great characters, a story line, and good action/mini stories. The author also made the characters have

Interesting account of Norma's homesteading with her husband. Fun read.