Alaska has an area of about 586,000 square miles, considerably more than twice that of Texas, the largest state. It has a population of about 54,000, considerably less than three-quarters of that of Nevada, the least populated state. It is shaped, roughly, like the head of a bull turned upside down, one horn being the Alaska Peninsula, the other what is known as the Panhandle, a strip of territory extending down the Canadian coast. Its population, about half white and half Indian, averages less than one for every ten square miles, and...
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