Offer of free homestead land is red-hot for Alaska town
Texas Couple Moves “off the grid” to live off the land in Alaska Boy meets girl. Boy takes girl to Alaska. There is no running water, no indoor bathroom, and the cabin is only accessible by boat. To an ordinary couple, this would be hell. To this couple, it is heaven. But this...
This was the law until 1976 (1986 in Alaska) and, during the period the Homestead Act was effective, the government granted more than 270 million acres of land into private hands. That is some 10 percent of the total land in the country. During that period, 62,926 homesteads were granted...