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Why did Mike Gravel move to Alaska?
Mike Gravel decided to become a pioneer in a faraway place, and moved to pre-statehood Alaska.
when did Mike Gravel move to alaska
Mike Gravel decided to become a pioneer in a faraway place, and moved to pre-statehood Alaska in August 1956.
What did Mike Gravel do in alaska
Broke when he arrived, Mike Gravel immediately found work in real estate sales until winter arrived.
What did Mike Gravel do in winter when he first moved to Alaska
Mike Gravel then was employed as a brakeman for the Alaska Railroad, working the snow-clearing train on the Anchorage-Fairbanks run.
What else did Mike Gravel do in alaska other than moving there, finding work in real estate sales, and be employed as a brakeman for the Alaska Railroad
Seeing Alaska as a wide-open place with no political establishment or entrenched interests, Mike Gravel quickly became part of the civic scene there.

Question: Did he meet anyone up there?
Self-contained rewrite: Did Mike Gravel meet anyone up there in the Anchorage civic scene?