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Photo by Clark Fair Abby (Lancashire) Ala, seen here giving riding lessons in the early 2000s, was just a child when her mother befriended Miriam Mathers. Ala now lives on a portion of the old Mathers homestead.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 4

Mathers had only three cents in her purse when she arrived in Kenai

Although she applied for a patent to her homestead in 1948, the patent was not granted until 1953, three and a half years after her death.

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Tragedy and triumph of the Goat Woman — Part 1

Florence Lorraine “Rusty” Lancashire first met her neighbor, the old Goat Woman, in the fall of 1948