Tisha
The Wonderful True Love Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Robert Specht|Anne Purdy
The book recounts the experiences of a 19-year-old teacher named Anne Hobbs who moves to Chicken, Alaska, in 1927 to teach in a one-room schoolhouse. Facing harsh conditions and community prejudice due to her defense of the local Indigenous population and her relationship with a half-Inuit man, Anne's story is one of resilience, love, and the transformative power of education in a remote frontier.
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