Norma Cobb

Artic Homestead. Norma Cobb and Charles W. Sasser. 2000. Norma Cobb wa the last woman to sign up under the U.S. Homestead Act and become a homesteader in Alaska. Sasser had taken the journal Norma kept and written her story. Norma and her future husband met in Kansas. She was a divorced mother of three boys and he was the divorced father of twin girls. The met fell in love and married and ended up homesteading in Alaska. They struggle with their own inexperience, the weather, wild animals, show more and unsavory men. It is a fascinating, suspenseful story and very readable. I really enjoyed the modern-day pioneer story! show less

I enjoyed reading this so much, I reread it. That's a big deal for me. Norma Cobb was the last American homesteader, and a woman, at that! The book chronicles their adventure of moving their family of seven to the Alaskan wilderness on the contents of a money sock that must have had a hole in it!

2004 Funny, funny book! Read it; you'll laugh. I might have to re-read it! It is written as a memoir by the last American woman homesteader.
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2011 I enjoyed reading this so much, I reread it. That's a big deal for me. Norma Cobb was the last American homesteader, and a woman, at that! The book chronicles their adventure of moving their family of seven to the Alaskan wilderness on the contents of a money sock that must have had a hole in it!