Arctic Homestead: The True Story of One Family's Survival and Courage in the Alaskan Wilds

"A memoir as wild, engaging, stubborn, and authentic as that distant valley where [Cobb's] family staked out the last plot in America." —John Balzar, author of Yukon Alone

In 1973, Norma Cobb, her husband Lester and their five children—the oldest of whom was nine years old and the youngest, twins, barely one—pulled up stakes in the lower 48 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 A...