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> Alaska was as remote as the moon, as roistering and lawless as the Gold Rush. And a pretty young schoolteacher from Colorado like Anne Hobbs was even rarer than nuggets. "So appealing are the people here, even the villainous ones; so dramatic is the landscape in which they act out their adventure; so pure is the moral conflict that forms the story's backbone, and so honest is its sentimentality - that I managed to suspend all my disbelief as I read it. And it was with pleasure that I raced through this good old-fashioned yarn, hissing the villains, holding my breath at each succeeding…
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5 editions- Paperback · English · 1984Bantam · 342 pages · 9780553247718
- Paperback · English · 1984Bantam · 342 pages · 9780553265965
- Paperback · English · 1981Bantam Books · 342 pages · 9780553206142
- Hardcover · English · 1976St. Martin's Press · 384 pages · 9780718115395
- Other · English · 1999Tandem Library · 9780613143462
AlaskaEducationTeachersAlaska, social life and customsAlaska, social conditions



