Tours to the top of the world: take a trip to Barrow from Fairbanks' River's Edge Resort.(SPECIAL SECTION: 2006 CONVENTION GUIDE)

Alaska Business Monthly | July 1, 2006| | Copyright

Located on Alaska's North Slope, Barrow is the northernmost community in the United States and the northernmost community of more than 2,000 people in the world. With a population of 4,680, as of 2004, Barrow has a vibrant history of whaling, Native Alaskan culture and tourism. Tundra Tours, currently managed by Joe Sage, has been a Barrow institution for more than 50 years. Tundra Tours has teamed up with Seattle-based Alaska Airlines and Fairbanks-based River's Edge Resort for a top-of-the-world adventure.

Steve Frank co-owns River's Edge Resort with his wife, ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial to HighBeam Research

Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research

(Including press releases, facts, information, and biographies)

"All the people are now guerillas": the warfare of Sherman, Sheridan, and Lincoln, and the brutality of the twentieth century.(William Tecumseh Sherman, Philip Henry Sheridan and Abraham Lincoln)
Magazine article from: Independent Review ; ...for twentieth-century brutality. Abraham Lincoln and John Pope Historians generally associate Grant, Sherman, and Sheridan with the emergence of the most significant elements of total war, and they tend to date the creation of early total-war...
At Sheridan Circle in Northwest, Civil War Hero Charges Through Time
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...s traffic circles, Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, mounted on his black charger...under him. After meeting Sheridan for the first time, Capt. Henry A. DuBois said he felt as...wrote in a letter in 1888. Sheridan knew he had this effect...
Named for a war hero, Fort Sheridan has its place in U.S. history
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ; Fort Sheridan's name was preordained. Who better...after the Great Fire of 1871? General Philip Henry Sheridan was commander of the Division of the...in Chicago, during the Great Fire. Sheridan came to fame through a series of battles...
Mission with no record. (fiction)
Magazine article from: Saturday Evening Post ; ...hours ahead of schedule. General Sheridan rode in with 'em from Elkhorn...veranda in two long strides. Philip Henry Sheridan, his back to the hanging lamp...stove roared like a river boat. "Sheridan, mister"--in a bleak York...
Brick by brick
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL) ; ...transformed long vacant stables at Fort Sheridan into seven two-story luxury...Bratslavsky is president. Fort Sheridan, a former Army base sandwiched...stables, famous as the place Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan kept his horse, Reinz, into...
Front Royal recalls the brutal killings of Mosby's men.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...lines of Union Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan's Valley Army, battling...and I suggest that Sheridan's cavalry should be...object." Grant then sent Sheridan what would be a fatal...Seventeen-year-old Henry Rhodes of Front Royal...
20071
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ; ...had designated a new military post as Fort Sheridan, in honor of Lt. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan. Signed by the secretary of war, the order...issued "by command of Lieutenant General Sheridan." I was never able to learn whether the...
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History ; ...protagonists: Union major general Philip Henry Sheridan and Confederate lieutenant general...considers the political impact of Sheridan's successful and destructive...Abraham Lincoln's approval of Sheridan's methods and insisted that...
A Civil War soldier's realistic tale.(BOOKS)(THE LOST WORD)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times ; ...in 1864, he saw action in Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan's Shenandoah Valley campaign...contemporaries as Walt Whitman, Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte and Mark Twain...the vast drama glimpsed in it." Henry James, reviewing it for The Nation...
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864.(Military Campaigns of the Civil War, vol. 9)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History ; ...protagonists: Union major general Philip Henry Sheridan and Confederate lieutenant general...considers the political impact of Sheridan's successful and destructive...Abraham Lincoln's approval of Sheridan's methods and insisted that...

Find more facts and information related to the article "Tours to the top of the world: take a trip to ..."