Fur Flowers Alaska

Wilton cake decorating 1,2,3

Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land–From Russian Fur Traders to the Gold Rush, Extraordinary Railroads, World War II, the Oil Boom, and the Fight Over ANWR $13.72 The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches — and ever present are new people with competing views over how these resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of “Gold!”; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mine…