Amazing stuff! I wanted to rush out and share with my friends all these bizarre things about Alaska! -- Alma Jean, "The Alma Jean Show" January 2, 2003
Product Description
Alaska is the 49th state admitted to the Union and is a huge source of oil and gold. But do you know anything else about this rugged frontier? We at Eden Entertainment Limited, Inc. decided to produce a handy book for the visitor and local alike.
It's called "True Secrets of Alaska Revealed!"
Full of questions and answers going through hundreds of years of Alaska history. The questions are carefully researched, photographed and indexed for your reading or browsing pleasure. Below is an example:
Whose shoes are bronzed in the Anchorage Museum of History and Art?
Bill Bishop, the geologist from Richfield Oil who marked where to drill for oil. Bishops heel mark was nothing short of extraordinary. It marked the first profitable oil well ever in Alaska and was the first drilling attempt there by the Richfield Oil Company.
Had Bishop made that mark 100 yards farther away the Swanson River oil well would have been another land office statistic, the 166th nonproductive Alaskan oil well. Fortunately, Bill Bishops boots were made for drilling, and that's just what they'll do...
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