A native lad: Benny Benson tells Alaska's story

Benny Benson things about his Aleut ancestors / artist: Lee Post

The Alaska purchase / artist: Evon Zerbetz

Alaska Natives fight for their fishing rights / artist: Gideon Gerlt

The gold rush / artist: Sean Jones

James Wickersham chastises the first territorial legislature / artist: Shanley McCauley

Benny Benson demonstrates his resourcefulness / artist: Duke Russell

Ketchikan native girl wins a cast against school segregation / artist: Lance Lekander

Governor Ernest Gruening talks to restaurant owners about Native civil rights / artist : Dimi Macheras

The canned salmon industry corrupts the legislature / artist: Peter Dunlap-Shohl

President Eisenhower, Alaska Republicans and the statehood campaign / artist: Dimi Macheras

The conditional convention / artist: Gideon Gerlt

The Atwoods promote statehood to "Ice Palace" author Edna Ferber / artist: Sean Jones

Bob Bartlett helps to win statehood in Congress / artist: Shanley Mccauley

Geologist Tom Marshall has a hunch there's a big oil field on the North Slope / artist: Peter Dunlap-Shohl

Radical Inupiat leader Charlie "Etok" Edwardsen fights for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act / artist: Dimi Macheras

Abigail wonders if she can do more for Alaska than Sarah Palin / artist: Peter Dunlap-Shohl.