Alaska

<p><span class="deck"> (Congress debates acquiring Alaska, 1867)</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Curiosity motivated the first American who crossed Siberia. But he also made a handsome profit.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Early in his military career, the apostle of air power blazed a trail through the wilderness, forging the last link in a telegraph line to the edge of the Bering Sea</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a bunch of the boys—and some of the girls, too—slogged up to the gold diggings in the Yukon; and how Hegg the photographer joined in the scramble, leaving a record of one of the most rugged adventures of modern times.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> America’s greed for oil has drastically upset the ecological balance of Alaska’s North Slope, and the end is not in sight</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Klondike Photographs of Clarke and Clarence Kinsey</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Sixty-eight years before Mount St. Helens blew, Alaska’s Mount Katmai erupted—and nearly brought on a second ice age</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">Was it science, sport, or the prospect of a round-the-world railroad that sent the tycoon off on his costly Alaskan excursion?</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the Yukon with G. C. Hazelet</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the Aleutian Islands, you can explore a landscape of violent beauty, discover the traces of an all-but-forgotten war, and (just possibly) catch a $100,000 fish.</span></p>

<p>On a 1947 trip up north with his son, Ansel Adams took a remarkable photograph that brought Alaska's grandeur to the American public on a large scale for the first time.</p>