Here’s one more Northern Pacific/Alaska Steamship brochure from the NPRHA — Lorenz Schrenk collection. Several of the tour prices in this brochure are a little higher than in Great Northern’s 1936 brochure but a little lower than Great Northern’s 1938 brochure, so I’m dating it to 1937.

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The description of the Golden Belt Line Tour says visitors “may readily visit the Government’s famous Matanuska Valley coloninzation project.” This was a New Deal program based on the notion that people who had failed at farming in the harsh environment of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin could become successful farmers in the even harsher Alaskan environment. The federal government spent $5 million helping to settle more than 200 families in the valley. Within a few years, 90 percent of them were gone.