Chapter 2: The Disappearances of the Palmer Brothers
Chapter 2: The Disappearances of the Palmer Brothers It seems that in the world today one is never far from another person. In the decades just before World War II, the most industrialized nations witnessed a rapid migration of their populations from rural to urban and suburban areas. Because of that trend, most of us have to travel a distance to truly get away from the noise of civilization. Even denizens of rural areas are usually not very far from their closest neighbors and only a short drive to the nearest town or city. In areas that are more remote, such as the American west, freeways, trains, and airplanes connect formerly isolated areas to the rest of the world. The American state of Alaska may be an exception to this rule. Alaska, the United States’ forty-ninth state, is aptly named the “Last Frontier” because of its vast expanses of territory that has rarely, if ever, been walked on by human feet. The size of Alaska is immense; it is comprised of 663,268 square miles of land,...