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Trapper Creek, Alaska: Free Life from Michigan
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a point of pride for many rural Alaskans that they live
in a place that is relatively free from government restrictions
- away from a life whose problems (or some of them, at least)
are humorously demonstrated by this Trapper Creek yard decoration.
Indeed, many local people moved to Trapper Creek from the
"Lower 48" to gain the sense of rediscovered freedom
that comes with living in rural Alaska. Groups of homesteaders
arrived from the 1940's to as late as the 1980's. The most
well-known group came from Michigan. They arrived in 1959,
and were called "The 59ers." |
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