My grandfather was a Pig Farmer in Santa Clara County when he went up to Alaska to help put in the Eklutna dam. Later he sent for his family. My mother was one of eight children. She married a service man, and homesteaded alone in the wilderness for 2 years. My mother came across the pacific to Alaska on the ship Alaska, when she was 15 years old. My grandfather remained in Alaska for the rest of his life, doing the things he liked best, taking the old swamp buggy and hunting in the wilds of Alaska. Many of his children homestead off Knik Arm , just off of Wassila, in the early 1950's.
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