Rugged Gold Book

With jill eikenberry art hindle ari magder graham greene.

Rugged gold book.

This is a true story and a testimony to the indomitable spirit of one woman. Internal binding solid paper lightly yellowed. Raised in east coast society she courted and married a gold miner from alaska. Mass market paperback paperback hardcover mass market paperback paperback hardcover.

An ordeal of heroic proportions which stands as a story of compelling interest over and above the pardonable emotional hysteria of its handling. 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. This book is an odd mix of fiction and memoir. 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.

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Dell latitude 7220 rugged tablet 11 6 fhd touch outdoor readable intel core i5 8365u 6mb 1 60 ghz quad core 8gb ram 256gb ssd nvme windows 10 pro. By martha martin online at alibris. Lloyd s name is really clyde my grandfather. 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.

With great period color advertising. 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. It was written by heather bolyan sometime around the 1940s and is set in the early 1920s in alaska. Quarto 13 3 4 tall stiff illustrated wraps 156 pages illustrated in black and white and color.

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. Lloyd s name is really clyde my grandfather. Buy a cheap copy of o rugged land of gold book. It s unclear how much of the events really happened to bolyan and how much is fictionalized.

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. We have new and used copies available in 3 editions starting at 18 49. It s written as a journal by martha martin who is bolyan s roman a clef.