The Story of Alaska in 50 Ladmarks

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>America turns 250. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's go find the candles.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Looking for a history lesson that doesn't feel like homework? You've found it. At 250history.com the Semiquincentennial Series brings each state's distinctive landmarks to center stage to tell their fast and fun story. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We've wandered through big cities tiny towns muddy trails and neon-lit highways-uncovering 5000 historic gems along the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Semiquincentennial isn't just a mouthful-it's a reminder that history is alive sometimes weird and always waiting to be rediscovered.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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 100 Alaska landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Last Frontier.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Stampeders... Roosevelt's Tree Army... fur traders... Ambassadors</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of Alaska... Operation Landcrab... high noon at midnight baseball...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>constant-angle dams... the forgotten explorer... Roundhouse...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bone Dry Law... Mission 66... Voyage of Understanding... Father</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of Alaska Aviation... Matanuska Colony Project... The Last Great</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Race... Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act... Salmon Capital of the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>World... Million Dollar Camp... three lucky Swedes... Parkitecture...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>White Pass Trail... Arctic Brotherhood... Alaska Native Sisterhood...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>poor man's paradise... Great Hunt... Alaska Native Claims Settle-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ment Act... This book will have you telling stories like a native in no</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the explanations behind the quirks the traditions and the secrets that</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>make Alaska uniquely Alaska. How did the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>save Alaskan culture? Solved. How did Jefferson Randolph Smith get</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>his nickname Soapy? A mystery no more. What is the largest fisher-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ies port in the United States? Identified. What was the doll system in</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>frontier gold rush saloons? Revealed. Was the sinking of the SS Clara</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Nevada an inside job? No one knows.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>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!</span></p>