Your local library should be able to provide these basic reference books, which include information about Alaska.

• Encyclopedia Americana
• World Book Encyclopedia
• Almanacs (World, Alaska, Book of Facts)
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
• The Statesman’s Year-Book
• State Names, Seals, Flags, and Symbols
• Alaska Milepost

Click here for online Alaska Historical collection of Gold Rush photos. Also, a catalog of Gold Rush photos can be ordered (cost: $5.00) by contacting the Alaska State Library-Alaska Historical Collections, PO Box 110571, Juneau, Alaska 99801-0804-0571 or telephone (907) 465-2925 or fax a request to (907) 465-2990.

Don’t forget to check out the following websites for information on Alaska.

• AlaskaPhotoLibrary.org
• http://vilda.alaska.edu
• http://sled.alaska.edu/akfaq/akfaqindex.html
• www.theus50.com/alaska
• http://www.nara.gov/education/historyday/alaska/check.html
• http://www.state.ak.us/local/akpages/FISH.GAME/geninfo/kids/kids.htm
• Secretary of State William H.Seward arranged for the United States to purchase Alaska from Russia in 1867 for 7.2 million dollars, or 2 cents per acre."
  this is from the national archives -- the actual cancelled check for the purchase