Maria Downey
Chief Anchor
Anchorage, Ak
(Photo Credit: Freeze Frame Photography)
Sheffield, a Democrat, served as governor from 1982 to 1986, when Alaska’s economy was booming from the explosion of oil field development on the North Slope.
In this edition of The Video Vault, we are focusing on Alaskan memorabilia and historic finds. Maria Downey is joined by Eric Sowl to discuss some Alaska pickers in Palmer.
Today we venture back into our archives as we covered a historic event on Denali. It was more than a century ago when the first people climbed the summit of the Great One. Since then, thousands more have followed. Some have made it successfully, some have actually lost their lives on the mountain. In this Assignment Alaska from 2013, Steve McDonald shows us where it all started back in 1913, with four determined men in search of adventure.
In this edition of The Video Vault, we look back in time at a historical event in Alaska that happened in the early 1900s. That was when the first automobile arrived in Fairbanks, but it was also about the time when the first automobile was built in Alaska.
