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| Newspapers around the world covered the exploits of Arctic explorers who were driven to extremes in their efforts to be first - to the North Pole, to the top of Mount McKinley, to the reaches of the continent. Their names became household words in the early 1900s.
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Alaska-Canada Boundary Dispute
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Alaska and Canada's shared boundary, the longest undefended border in the world, was first established with the Anglo-Russian Treaty of 1825.
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The Allen Expedition
(2 pages)
During the waning years of the western American Indian wars, the military posted Gen. Nelson A. Miles in the Pacific Northwest.
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Margaret E. Murie, Grandmother of American Conservation
(2 pages)
Margaret E. (Thomas) Murie, America's "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement," was born into a polished, well-educated Seattle family.
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Mary Joyce: Alaska's First Lady of Adventure
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Mary Joyce chose a path that some would consider hardship, but others would view as glamorous.
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Will Rogers and Wiley Post
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America was in the throes of the Great Depression when another bout of tragic news streaked across the nation: two great men had been killed in an airplane accident in northern Alaska.
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