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Alaska the New Frontier: Old Alaska
Season 2017
Episode 2
"The Old Alaska - How Alaska Began" was part of a 6-part series, Alaska: New Frontier, that explores the newly admitted 49th State of the Union. This episode explores how the discovery of gold was largely responsible for the first expansion of the territory’s population.
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