James Michener (1907-1997) is best known for his many epic historical novels, which have sold an estimated 75 million copies worldwide. He was also a noted philanthropist, having contributed more than...
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As Harrison Salisbury wrote in the Chicago Tribune, "James Michener is as much an American institution as the Fourth of July or apple pie." Michener wrote short stories, essays, poems, and art histori...
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James Michener has published nearly a dozen volumes of fiction, but such is his versatility that he has published more than an equal number of volumes of nonfiction, and more than one hundred articles...
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Critical Essay by Oliver La Farge
["The Last Frontier"] is something new in Americana. At first sight one recognizes that it comes out of the healthy, increasing trend to rewrite the hi...
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Critical Essay by Joseph Henry Jackson
Little has been written about the [Cheyenne Indians who defiantly journeyed from their reservation to their former homes in the Montana Territory, but in ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Littell
In the late Seventies, according to Howard Fast, who seems to have examined all the documents with the scrupulous imagination of a historical novelist, the Cheyenne I...
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The reason the Titanic's tragic collision on April 14, 1912 was so devastating was because the iceberg the ship hit appeared small, but was in fact extremely large. This is a property icebergs share...
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Alaska is situated on the tip of the Seward Peninsula in the northwest part of the North America. It is the biggest state of the USA, but has least dense population.
The sparse population of Alaska i...
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It has been said that the last frontier man has to conquer is the universe around the earth, everything within the realm of this world has not only been conquered but mastered. However, the final fr...
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In her first year as governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin has plunged ahead with the fearlessness of a polar explorer.The populist Republican has raised taxes on the powerful oil industry. She has pushe...
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When he was a keeper of the federal purse strings, Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska told another Republican senator who opposed the infamous "bridge to nowhere," "I don't threaten people. I promise peopl...
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Charlie Cross counted how many friends and relatives took their own lives over the years and came up with 19, all Alaska Natives."Of those 19, a mere three that I know of were not consuming alcohol...
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A New Jersey family was identified Tuesday as the four people killed when their single-engine plane crashed into a home and set it ablaze in Sitka.No one was in the home when the plane plowed into ...
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One former state representative is guilty of bribery. Three more await trial on similar charges. The state's lone congressman is under federal investigation for corruption. A U.S. senator just had ...
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Harold Bahr signed up to defend his homeland at the tender age of 11.He was living in the old Gold Rush town of Nome in 1942 when he joined a largely Native militia called up to protect Alaska from...
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Federal agents are looking into Sen. Ted Stevens' role in the ongoing investigation into the remodeling of his Alaska home, according to two law enforcement officials familiar with the probe.The tw...
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ConocoPhillips wants to build potentially the world's largest, most expensive energy facility — a multibillion dollar gas pipeline running from Alaska's North Slope to Midwestern states.The p...
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The Justice Department inappropriately pressured a former state lawmaker to consider pleading guilty in a corruption case, according to his lawyer, who wants a federal judge to review the agency's ...
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Georgia and Alaska joined the growing list of states pushing up their presidential primary voting to Feb. 5, a date clearly shaping up as a national primary day for Republicans and Democrats.In Ala...
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Critical Essay by Oliver La Farge
Theres More Than Meets the Eye
Alaska governor shows fearlessness
