Large Letter Reprint - Anchorage, Alaska

Nicknames: The Last Frontier

Mottos: North to the Future

After World War II, a radar system to detect and prevent a nuclear attack through the polar regions was built in Alaska. In 1867, Tsar Alexander II sold Alaska to the United States for $ 7 million. Thirty years later, the value of the gold mined there by the Americans exceeded 100 times that amount.