In 1900 two prospectors were traveling through Alaska. Their horses were hungry and so when they spied a distant green hillside they thought their luck was in. They were not wrong. They had stumbled upon a massive deposit of copper ore, exposed at the surface.
Industry on a massive scale quickly followed. Yet by 1939 the copper was exhausted, the place abandoned. This is what remains of the Kennecott Mine Camp.
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I read about this place in The Road to McCarthy so it's amazing to see the place for real. Even more amazing is that it looks just like I imagined it, that's a great tribute to Pete McCarthy's writing.
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