Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness. She’s…

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