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To find out more about the fascinating Matanuska
Colony experiment, Orlando Miller’s The Frontier
in Alaska and the Matanuska Colony (Yale
University Press, 1975) is one of the finest
examples of research into this bold experiment.
Miller documents the efforts to colonize and
develop Alaska before 1930, then details the history
of the Colony from its inception until the 1970s.
Even though the Colony is held up as one of the
New Deal’s most extravagant failures, Miller
makes a convincing argument that much of today’s
agricultural success can be traced back to the
activity surrounding this enterprise.
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