| Article: | Expiration date looms for Alaska's dairy industry June 17, 2007 By MATT TUNSETH Frontiersman MAT-SU - In 1935, a rugged group of Midwesterners packed up and left a continental United States ravaged by the Great Depression and headed for Alaska Territory in search of a better life. Settling in the fertile Matanuska Valley, the colonists found winters long and growing seasons short, but the hardiest and most stubborn among them managed to hang on. |