The Great Alaskan Earthquake 1964

Alaska is the largest state in the union A vast area of over half a million square miles Bounded by the Artic and Pacific oceans 99 years ago it was called Seward's folly after the secretary of state who purchased it from Russia for 7 million dollars then it was thought to be a valueless wilderness today there is still much wilderness but it is hardly valueless vast natural resources have been discovered beneath the great tracts of land fishing boats & freighters