Two trappers in Fairbanks, Alaska, caught one of the largest wolves ever encountered in the wild shortly before Christmas.

Nonetheless, Eisenhower signed legislation making Alaska a state on July 7, 1958. On January 3, 1959, Alaska was officially ...

A pair of Alaskan trappers caught what might just be the heaviest wild wolf to ever be weighed on a certified scale.

But in many cases, the Native hunters were willing trade partners ... by outlawing the killing of fur seals and sea otters in these waters by any Americans except Alaska Natives." ...

Alaska, with its official nickname "Last Frontier ... The following time line tracks this development from the early days of the fur trade up to the arrival of the George W.

a spokesperson for the Alaska State Troopers. The state has for decades supplied such fur trapper-style hats as part of the regular trooper uniform, McDaniel said. “While some Troopers have ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

It was weighed by Al Barrette, who is also a trapper, fur tanner, and current Alaska Board of Game member. Al has handled hundreds, if not thousands, of wolves in his career and told Evans that ...