Whether you’re traveling by road, by printed page, or by imagination; whether you are a lifelong native or visiting for a week, we invite you to explore 50 Alaska landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Last Frontier.
Stampeders… “Roosevelt’s Tree Army”… fur traders… “Ambassadors
of Alaska”… Operation Landcrab… “high noon at midnight baseball”…
constant-angle dams… “the forgotten explorer”… Roundhouse…
Bone Dry Law… Mission 66… “Voyage of Understanding”… “Father
of Alaska Aviation”… Matanuska Colony Project… “The Last Great
Race”… Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act… “Salmon Capital of the
World”… Million Dollar Camp… “three lucky Swedes”… Parkitecture…
White Pass Trail… Arctic Brotherhood… Alaska Native Sisterhood…
“poor man’s paradise”… “Great Hunt”… Alaska Native Claims Settle-
ment Act… This book will have you telling stories like a native in no
time.
The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn
the explanations behind the quirks, the traditions and the secrets that
make Alaska uniquely Alaska. How did the St. Louis World’s Fair of 1904
save Alaskan culture? Solved. How did Jefferson Randolph Smith get
his nickname “Soapy”? A mystery no more. What is the largest fisher-
ies port in the United States? Identified. What was the “doll system” in
frontier gold rush saloons? Revealed. Was the sinking of the SS Clara
Nevada an inside job? No one knows.
It is a story only Alaska can call its own. A story told in 100 landmarks. Almost all the selections within are open to the public, or at least visible from public spaces. So, fire up the GPS and see the story of the Last Frontier standing in plain sight on Alaska streets!