Historical clue formulations

• State that's the subject of 44-Down's book "Coming Into the Country" — 2026-02-10
• RATING: ******** Fresh salmon and spectacular scenery. Go north, young man! — 2024-11-13
• Prospector's locale of the late 1800s — 2024-04-17
• One side of the Bering Sea — 2024-03-01
• Where Fairbanks is — 2023-10-23
• U.S. state with nearly 34,000 miles of shoreline — 2023-03-21
• Baked ___ — 2021-10-27
• State whose flag, with eight gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper, was designed by a 13-year-old — 2021-09-13
• Home of 17 of the 20 highest peaks in the U.S. — 2021-07-26
• Juneau's home — 2020-08-24
• Juneau is its capital — 2020-07-27
• #49 — 2020-01-02
• Setting for the 1996 best seller "Into the Wild" — 2018-09-28
• Anchorage's home — 2018-09-17
• "What did Delaware?" "I don't know, but ___" (classic joke) — 2017-10-08
• State that the Arctic Circle passes through — 2017-02-13
• U.S. state closest to the International Date Line — 2016-05-31
• Admission of 1959 — 2015-12-20
• State whose flag has eight gold stars — 2015-11-17
• "Ice Road Truckers" locale — 2015-11-07
• Denali's home — 2015-09-29
• Juneau's home — 2014-09-15
• The Last Frontier state — 2014-02-10
• Skagway locale — 2012-03-04
• Fairbanks's home — 2011-10-03
• "Sarah Palin's ___" of 2010-11 TV — 2011-06-27
• See 26-/28-Down — 2011-06-02
• Purchase of 1867 — 2010-09-19
• "What did Delaware?" "I don't know, but ___" (old joke) — 2010-04-20
• Where the North Slope slopes — 2009-11-24
• Its motto is "North to the future" — 2008-11-07
• Old riddle: "What did Delaware?" Answer: "I don't know, but ___" — 2005-09-10
• Its flag shows the Big Dipper and the North Star — 2005-03-12
• Panhandle site — 2005-01-30
• Focus of Seward's Folly — 2004-09-26
• Gold rush locale — 2003-08-09
• Eskimo's home — 2002-10-24
• Purchase of 1867 — 2002-05-25
• Snowy race setting — 2002-02-01
• Copper River's locale — 2001-10-17
• Michener best seller — 2000-08-27
• Where Nome is — 1998-02-23
• 7.2 million-dollar bargain — 1998-02-12
• Panhandle site — 1997-11-09
• Subject of an 1867 sale — 1996-12-22
• Where Nome is home — 1996-11-11
• Mt. Blackburn locale — 1996-06-30
• Popular cruise destination — 1996-05-29
• "Northern Exposure" setting — 1996-03-10
• 1988 Michener epic — 1995-06-29