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		<title>Skagway and the White Pass Route</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For over a hundred years, Skagway has served as the primary port access for the Yukon Territory. A small town at the northern reaches of Lynn Canal, Skagway attracts nearly a million visitors a year. They come to see the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, ride the White Pass and Yukon Route Railroad (WP&#38;YR), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coast Guard Cutter Crosses Arctic Circle on Anniversary of Northwest Passage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 22:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Petty Officer 1st Class Kurt Fredrickson &#8211; KODIAK, Alaska &#8211; In 1865 the first U.S. Light House Service tender reached the shores of Russian Alaska and sparked the beginning of what has been more than 145 years of Coast Guard history in the Bering Sea. While the wooden ships of the Light House and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Woman who went to Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Women who went to Alaska details two astonishing trips made by May Kellogg Sullivan to the gold fields of the Yukon and Alaska Territories in the 1900&#8242;s. A true survivor, Sullivan stakes mining claims, works at menial jobs and experiences life with native people of the region. The very presence of women in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Muir Comes to Alaska</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Naturalist John Muir first explored Alaska during a trip to the Island of Wrangell on July 14, 1879. Muir wasn't impressed, saying "the most inhospitable place at first sight I had ever seen.]]></description>
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		<title>Alaska&#8217;s Copper River</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alaska's Copper River has been navigated for trade and used for subsistence proposes since before the advent of recorded history. The river currently provides a rich Sockeye Salmon resource for commercial, personal use and subsistence fishermen. It is popular with paddle sports enthusiasts, offering many kayak and rafting adventures.]]></description>
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		<title>Efforts to Restore the Good Name of Denali</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Alaskans believe outside interests with little connection to the land should impose their own names on Alaska’s geographic features. People here will continue to know the mountain as Denali, which should be the only right course of action for Ohio’s Representatives.]]></description>
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		<title>Wrangell Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 00:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wrangell is a community steeped in rich history, home to people for thousands of years. It is an island community in southern Southeast Alaska that has experienced the boom and bust resource development process so prevalent in Alaska's past.]]></description>
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		<title>Chilkoot Trail to the Klondike</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its heyday, Dyea proclaimed itself like many other towns yet to come as the largest city in Alaska. Stampeders crossed Chilkoot Pass with their ton of goods in the effort to strike it rich in the Klondike goldfields starting in 1898.]]></description>
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		<title>Historic Cape Spencer Light &#8211; Guarding the Entrance of Cross Sound and Glacier Bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Historic Cape Spencer Light is located on Cape Spencer at the entrance of Cross Sound and Icy Strait from the outside waters of the Gulf of Alaska. It is found inside the boundaries of Glacier Bay National Park. Cross Sound marks the northern exit for vessels traveling along the Inside Passage of Southeast Alaska. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The International Gold Rush Trail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Sorum</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The International Gold Rush Trail is a proposed thematic system joining communities together a land and water route from the docks of Seattle through the Chilkoot Pass to the Yukon gold fields. This is a trail of history and experiences gained from retracing the steps of prospectors on the Trail of &#8217;98 suitable for hikers, [...]]]></description>
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