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A true story of a family's move to a remote island ranch.
When an overprotective mother and her two sons from a town in Idaho find themselves transpanted to a 200-square-mile sheep ranch in Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands, they discover the challenges and choices of total isolation can generate dangerous, exciting and sometimes hilarious consequences. With a wise new husland and father who lets them make their own mistakes, they learn to depend on each other and themselves, make decisions that could cost them their lives and discover the satisfaction that comes from hard work. On the surface, this is a collection of entertaining stories. But out of them emerges the daily tenor of a very different lifestyle. And between the lines runs a theme of family values, their importance and their strength.
1994 Good-Bye, Boise... Hello, Alaska book by Cora Holmes
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When an overprotective mother and her two sons from a town in Idaho find themselves transpanted to a 200-square-mile sheep ranch in Alaska's remote Aleutian Islands, they discover the challenges and choices of total isolation can generate dangerous, exciting and sometimes hilarious consequences. With a wise new husland and father who lets them make their own mistakes, they learn to depend on each other and themselves, make decisions that could cost them their lives and discover the satisfaction that comes from hard work. On the surface, this is a collection of entertaining stories. But out of them emerges the daily tenor of a very different lifestyle. And between the lines runs a theme of family values, their importance and their strength.