Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht
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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness by Robert Specht. And lawless as the Gold Rush. And a pretty young schoolteacher from Colorado like Anne Hobbs was even rarer than nuggets. 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 back-bone, and so honest is its sentimentality-that I man-aged to suspend all my disbelief as I read it. And it was with pleasure that I raced through this good old-fash-ioned yarn, hissing the villains, holding my breath at each succeeding catastrophe, and above all adoring 'plain old Anne I lobbs,' as she calls herself, the pretty slip of a nineteen-year-old who in 1927 had the courage not only to brave the Alaska wilderness as a teacher in a tiny gold-mining community called Chicken, but also to face down the community's violent disapproval when she dared to treat the local.
