Steve your nostalgia of the good old days is quite accurate except one thing Alaskans back then knew what the making of New Wealth meant they where living it. The  Homestead  Act was above all what helped settle this vast state. Ownership of Land created the roots they could depend on. Soon after they sowed the seeds of today's Residential  Neighborhoods.  Today our Legislature and Our Governor can't seem to get away from the Redistribution of existing wealth that doesn't create New wealth  but keeps them in power and control. It its time we say give us the opportunity Right by way of a Land disposal of the magnitude that creates our next boom.  AK LAND VOUCHER PROGRAM will do that. Now that isn't something you will hear from our government control freaks with greed in their hearts. Homesteading wasn't easy but the "Frontier Spirit" wasn't government made it was the people who did it themselves and that is what we need today. Yes not all came to Alaska to HS but they stayed.