(CBS DETROIT) - On Jan. 3, 1959, Alaska was admitted as the 49th state. President Eisenhower signed a special proclamation admitting the territory as the largest state at 664,988 square miles.

North to Alaska is a good-humored, old-fashioned, no-holds-barred, all-stops-out northern, a kind of rowdy second cousin to a not-very-adult western. It's the sort of easygoing, slaphappy ...

On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially admitted as the 49th state. That same year, Hawaii would become the 50th. As Smithsonian reported in 2017, “hundreds of billions of dollars in whale oil ...

There was no record of the woman being tested for gonorrhea in the year prior to her death, an official bulletin said.

The 1959 USO Christmas Tour that brought some very famous folks to Ladd Air Force Base. ... The original photo caption, dated Dec. 29, 1959, reads, “Hope Back From Alaska Yule Tour.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Two deer struggling in the waters of southeast Alaska’s famed Inside Passage finally made it to land, thanks to two Alaska Wildlife Troopers who gave the deer a lift in ...