CSPAN3 Reel America Alaska Centennial - 1967 October 15, 2017
A land of paradox. Streams and luminous days animate the landscape where , there is tropical greenery. Along the coast, forests of alder, spruce, cedar and pine spread for 1000 miles. Deep into green beyond the boundaries of imagination. The indians who named the land gave shape to the real and ghostly figures of their world. Recorded their legends in the carved spruce logs. They left the carvings of the russians who drove them from the great land. In the mid 18th century, the russian empire was expanding. In 1741, russian explorers claimed the land in the name of the widow of the russian lead...