Alaska, with its official nickname "Last Frontier ... Smithson had never set a foot on North American soil, but his gift of gold to the United States established the Smithsonian Institution ...

Russia wanted a permanent presence in North America, and hoped to exploit ... explorers traveled through the Yukon and explored Alaska's polar coast as far as Point Barrow. By the mid-eighteenth ...

Even today, Alaska has little by way of highways or railroads, so there are few better ways to explore America’s largest ... wraparound windows frame views of coastal ranges while bartenders ...

Russian warplanes were spotted flying off the coast of Alaska, the North American Aerospace ... a number of response options in defense of North America." ...

The ultimate nature escape in the USA has to be Alaska - a state with arguably the most unique landscape, culture, and climate to the rest of the country. From glaciers to fjords, and lakes to forests ...

A cruise vacation to Alaska is a profound adventure ... your pilot might even be able to land on the tallest mountain in North America, also known as "The Great One." Other excursions include ...