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

This is a fascinating true story of a religious fanatic who perverted the Bible and the book PILGRIM'S PROGRESS to fit his own perverted and contradictory belief system. The author did a terrific job starting with introducing us to him as the small community first saw him. We are then slowly introduced to his true nature and skillfully detailed background. We also become heartbroken over the children, especially the oldest daughter. This is not an easy book to put down once you've started it. This is a truly incredible story. One reviewer asked if we need more books about perverts. Highly recommended.

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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 proud piety and beautiful old-timey music, but their true story ran dark and deep.  Within weeks, Papa had bulldozed a road through the mountains to the new family home at an abandoned copper mine, sparking a tense confrontation with the National Park Service and forcing his ghost town neighbors to take sides in an ever-more volatile battle over where a citizen’s rights end and the government’s power begins.

In Pilgrim’s Wilderness, veteran Alaska journalist Tom Kizzia unfolds the remarkable, at times harrowing, story of a charismatic spinner of American myths who was not what he seemed, the townspeople caught in his thrall, and the family he brought to the brink of ruin.  As Kizzia discovered, Papa Pilgrim was in fact the son of a rich Texas family with ties to Hoover’s FBI and strange, oblique connections to the Kennedy assassination and the movie stars of Easy Rider.  And as his fight with the government in Alaska grew more intense, the turmoil in his brood made it increasingly difficult to tell whether his children were messianic followers or hostages in desperate need of rescue.  In this powerful piece of Americana, written with uncommon grace and high drama, Kizzia uses his unparalleled access to capture an era-defining clash between environmentalists and pioneers ignited by a mesmerizing sociopath who held a town and a family captive.

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

• Hardcover: 336 pages ( Download PDF :  )


• Language: English


• Author: Tom Kizzia


• ISBN-10: 0307587827


• ISBN-13: 978-0307587824


• Publisher: Crown; First Edition edition (July 16, 2013)


• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 1.2 x 9.5 inches

About the Author

TOM KIZZIA has traveled widely in rural Alaska for the Anchorage Daily News, and his work has appeared in the Washington Post and been featured on CNN.  His first book, The Wake of the Unseen Object, was named one of the best all-time nonfiction books about Alaska by the state’s historical society.  He lives in Homer, Alaska.

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