![]() ![]() She walked about forty miles back to Nome, Alaska, her hometown, with her young son. A destitute Ada, thus, began her journey. This was followed with Jack’s abandonment of Ada and their only living child, five-year-old Bennet on the Seward Peninsula in 1921. The pain of losing their children was unbearable, and it soon affected the once happy couple. But as luck would have it, two out of their three offspring did not survive. The young couple soon gave birth to three children. The Blackjacks: Luck was never on their sideĪt the young age of sixteen, Ada met her husband Jack Blackjack, a local dog musher. This is her story of courage, endurance and survival which lasted over two years. ![]() Ada Blackjack was a 23-year-old Inupiat woman who was stranded on a remote island north of Siberia during a compromised expedition. ![]()
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