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For those of us in the contiguous states, Alaska is reserved for National Geographic specials and Sarah Palin jokes. It's so far away that we rarely get a chance to see what the region has to offer; ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. Critics called the transaction "Seward's Folly" after US ...

circa 1950: A typical scene of the Aleutian Islands with a volcanic cone in the backgroundJ. Malcolm Greany/Three Lions/Getty Images Russia sold the territory known as Alaska to the US in 1687, but ...

Alaska was controversially purchased by the US from Russia in 1867. Critics called the transaction "Seward's Folly" after William Seward, the US secretary of state. Alaska was officially made the 49th ...