Alaska's healthy economic environment and plentiful natural resources have helped the Last Frontier continue to grow in the oil and gas industry and to attract several major retail projects. IN AUGUST, Standard & Poors (S&P) of New York maintained Alaska's AA bond rating...

No Longer Boating's Last Frontier Like a grizzly bear trying to catch a fish in midstream, marine safety advocates in Alaska have seen 11 boating safety bills slip through their fingers over the last 30 years. Since the Federal Boat Safety Act...

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 pushed through ethics legislation amid a burgeoning corruption investigation of Alaska lawmakers. She...

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 people."His home-state GOP colleague, Rep. Don Young, was not to be outdone. Last...

["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 history of our frontier with a new honesty which has tended, first, to be reasonably truthful at last about the Indians on whose dead bodies America was founded, and more recently to perceive that the Indians too, are a part of American society and that our treatment of them was and is a part of our democracy's success or failure. "T...

Little has been written about the [Cheyenne Indians who defiantly journeyed from their reservation to their former homes in the Montana Territory, but in "The Last Frontier"] Howard Fast puts the story into a compact, restrained, ruthlessly pruned and tremendously dramatic novel. Even the bare records must have made a moving story, jumbled and confused as they doubtless were. As Mr. Fast has disentangled and rewoven them the tale becomes a triumph of the historical novelist's art. Two p...

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 Indians were the heroes and the victims of a persecution which will touch any American on one of his conscience's sorest spots. Mr. Fast tells the story in The Last Frontier. It is a great story, even if the book is something short of great. Mr. Fast is not sentimental, and the agonized sympathy with which one puts the novel down is the r...

The following is a stylistic essay of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Wakefield."

A summary of Alaska's geography: its main rivers, mountains, climate, and coastal regions.

Essay consists of a personal experience of a trip to Alaska, USA.