The Great Alaskan Earthquake 1964
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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