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Last Frontier / New Frontier, Las Vegas, 1959

Pictures from the Photomatic booth at Last Frontier Village, Las Vegas, 1950s 

Pictures from the Photomatic booth at Last Frontier Village, Las Vegas, 1950s Last Frontier Village was a pre-Disneyland, Old West theme park, next to Hotel Last Frontier. Most of...

Arctic village wants tourists

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on whale...

Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, January 1947

Hotel Last Frontier, Las Vegas, January 1947Photos by Jon BrenneisIn the Ramona Room, Professor Lamberti (far left), billed as “the world’s daffiest xylophonist,” hosted a Circus-t...

North to Alaska, the last frontier

So we loaded in Wagner Oklahoma yesterday and we're finishing up in Northwood North Dakota today loading two Air Seeders and carts plus Sprayer going to Delta Junction, Alaska. Eve...

El Rancho Vegas, 1940s. Beyond (north) of the resort is El Rancho Village, community of about 40…

In the pool at the Frontier, 1950s. 

In the pool at the Frontier, 1950s. Publicity photo staged by Las Vegas News Bureau, modeled by Barbara Deer, daughter of Thunderbird exec. Bill Deer. The Frontier opened a new poo...

A tiny Arctic village in Alaska is trying to revive its polar-bear tourism industry

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Late every summer, hulking white bears gather outside a tiny Alaska Native village on the edge of the continent, far above the Arctic Circle, to feast on w...

Flying over the Frontier, November 1971

Flying over the Frontier, November 1971Photo by Hank DeLespinasse, Remember When Las Vegas. Hank deLespinasse Photographs (PH-00454) UNLV Special Collections & Archives.

Alaskan village tries to revive its polar bear tourism industry

At the edge of America, six Jewish graves endure

A July 1954 funeral in Fairbanks, Alaska, drew unexpected attention from Jewish newspapers across the country. The woman being buried, Lena Ferguson, was laid to rest in what the F...