Rugged Gold Book

Martha martin who had been prospecting with her husband don his partner sam and their 15 year old son lloyd in alaska for some years finds herself alone in their cabin one november when don leaves her to send off a moose to lloyd who had gone.

Rugged gold book.

With great period color advertising. I asked him after the movie first came out and we watched it if he was as much of a brat as he was portrayed in the movie and he told. In 1950s a windowed mother falls for an alaskan gold miner so they move to the alaskan wilderness and try to find gold and happiness. Mass market paperback paperback hardcover mass market paperback paperback hardcover.

A good copy overall with light exterior soiling and creasing but cover loose and taped into place with several edge tears and significant chipping to the spine. An ordeal of heroic proportions which stands as a story of compelling interest over and above the pardonable emotional hysteria of its handling. This book is an odd mix of fiction and memoir. Internal binding solid paper lightly yellowed.

This is a true story and a testimony to the indomitable spirit of one woman. It s unclear how much of the events really happened to bolyan and how much is fictionalized. Buy a cheap copy of o rugged land of gold book. Lloyd s name is really clyde my grandfather.

It s written as a journal by martha martin who is bolyan s roman a clef. Removed from her familiar life style she found herself in a very rough and alien environment in the roadless wilderness of alaska s pre state frontier territory. Quarto 13 3 4 tall stiff illustrated wraps 156 pages illustrated in black and white and color. Buy a cheap copy of o rugged land of gold book.

The book that this movie is based off of o rugged land of gold was written by my great grandmother under the pen name martha martin real name was helen bolyan. Free shipping over 10. Directed by michael anderson. We use cookies to collect information when you visit our site.

With jill eikenberry art hindle ari magder graham greene. Raised in east coast society she courted and married a gold miner from alaska. Buy o rugged land of gold. Lloyd s name is really clyde my grandfather.

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