The Last of Alaska
August 21st 2007 We’re up in the northeast corner of Alaska at the border, crossing back into the Yukon Territories. Yesterday was a short day and we spent more time than you’d expect in “Beautiful Downtown Chicken” AK. It’s built near the ruins of an old time gold rush town, also called Chicken, supposedly because the miners wanted to call it ptarmigan, but couldn’t spell the word. Chicken has a ca
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