Whitehorse Daily Star

'Bigger than Texas, better than California'

Fifty years ago tomorrow, on Jan. 3, 1959, U.S. president Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed Alaska the 49th state in the Union.

By Les McLaughlin on January 2, 2009

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