1895 Map of Alaska. Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas ... is the most valuable acquisition of territory obtained by the United States since the cession of California. The negotiation was entirely unexpected ...

The United States, a nation that is renowned for its diverse landscape and its history, ranks as the world's third-largest ...

Immense beyond imagination, Alaska covers more territory than Texas, California, and Montana combined. Wide swaths of the 49th state—aptly nicknamed the “Last Frontier”—are untamed and ...

In parts of Alaska, the National Weather Service ... in the western and northern parts of the United States, according to the ...