Texas Monthly10d
The Texanist: Were Texans Disappointed When Alaska Joined the Union?
A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America’s largest state from the time it was admitted, as the twenty-eighth state, on December 29, 1845, to the time Alaska was admitted, as the ...
Smithsonian Magazine28d
On This Day in 1959, Alaska—One of America’s Riskiest Investments—Became the 49th State in the Union
Before Alaska became an American state, Russia invaded and subjugated its people for fur trading Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent America’s largest state—encompassing mountains, coasts ...