Wasilla: Outpost Built On A Broken Dream Robert M. Thorson September 11, 2008 Wasilla The media attention on Alaska's governor has been torrential. Not wanting to give her any more attention, I'll focus on the geography that shaped her character. Frommer's Travel Guide to Alaska describes Wasilla as "the worst kind of suburban sprawl of highway-fronting shopping malls and gravel lots." How did this happen? The town's history is the kind of story Mark Twain had in mind when he wrote: "Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." First, some background. Alaska is so rich from pipeline royalties...