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March 20, 2007

Free land triggers a stampede in Alaska

  • A high school social studies class developed the homesteading idea to boost the town's dwindling population.
    • By RACHEL D’ORO
    Associated Press Writer

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Give it away and they will come.

    In this case it was land for grabs in Alaska's frozen interior. People dropped everything to fly or drive north. They camped out in temperatures as cold as 25 below to join other hardy hopefuls. They dreamed of the homes they would build amid the spruce and cottonwoods of the town of Anderson, population 300.


     
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