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Tisha: The Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaskan Wilderness
Written by Robert Specht and Anne Purdy
Narrated by Caroline McLaughlin
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The author tells the story as told to him of Anne Hobbs, a woman who went to Alaska in the 1920's to teach, but who had trouble due to her kindness to the Indians there.
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