The cold, wild land of Alaska is sometimes called "The Last Frontier." From the exciting history of gold miners to the bright future of the state's oil fields, Alaska is a unique part of the United States. It is the largest state in the union--covering over 1.7 million square kilometers--and is home to Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America. One of the fastest-growing parts of the Alaskan economy is tourism, as people from all over the world come to see Alaska's beautiful landscapes and amazing wildlife. Photographs, captions, and graphs support the text.
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Front cover: � Rob Howard/Corbis; title page, end page, loading page, page 13: courtesy of Joshua Strang/USAF/NASA; page 1 (first): courtesy of Nate Verhanovitz/National Park Service; page 1 (second): courtesy of Bill Raften/USFWS; page 3 (inset): � iStockphoto.com/Dag Sj�strand; pages 4, 5 (top left): courtesy of National Park Service; page 5 (top right): � iStockphoto.com/John Pitcher; page 5 (center left), (bottom right): courtesy of Melinda Webster/National Park Service; page 5 (center right): courtesy of Laura L. Whitehouse /US Fish and Wildlife Services; page 5 (bottom left): courtesy of Chris Russoniello/National Park Service; page 5 (right): � iStockphoto.com/Suzann Julien Photography; page 5 (left): � iStockphoto.com/Ryerson Clark; page 6 (top): � Edward S. Curtis/The Granger Collection, New York; page 6 (bottom): � Paul A. Souders/Corbis; page 7 (top right): � Michael Maslan Historic Photographs/Corbis; page 7 (bottom left): courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration; page 8 (left): Courtesy of Library of Congress, P&P Div [LC-USZ62-74495]; page 8 (right): Courtesy of Library of Congress, P&P Div [LC-USZ62-62102b]; page 8: courtesy of the Alaska State Museum; page 9: courtesy of W.R. Hansen/US Geological Survey; page 11: courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management; page 12 (second): � Peter Beck/Corbis; page 12 (first): � Stuart Westmorland/Corbis; page 14: � Karen Kasmauski/Science Faction/Corbis; page 15 (main): courtesy of Elizabeth Labunski/US Fish and Wildlife Services; page 15 (inset): courtesy of Mike Dunn, NC State Museum of Natural Sciences/ NOAA Climate Program Office, NABOS 2006 Expedition
Alaska: The Last Frontier Nonfiction
