President Trump’s executive order to rename the Alaska peak — North America’s highest — perplexes and worries many who live in its snow-shrouded midst.
He never set foot in Alaska. But the name Mount McKinley stuck and began to appear ... “What’s he going to do next, change the Ohio River to the U.S. Freeway?” said Republican former Ohio ...
an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska. He said he planned to “restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount ...
FILE - A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna, Alaska, on Sunday, June 13, 2021, with Denali in the background. Denali, the tallest mountain on the North American continent ...
FILE - A boat is seen on the Susitna River near Talkeetna ... The mountain was named after McKinley when a prospector walked out of the Alaska wilderness in 1896, and the first news he heard ...
The mountain had been named for former President William McKinley — who never visited Alaska — until in 2015 ... Jamie Allard, an Eagle River Republican who voted against the resolution.
Both Vermont Gov. Phil Scott and Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont traded jokes on X imagining if two bodies of water were renamed ...
As we skied from my driveway to the trail that would take us towards the Nenana River, which forms the eastern ... The neighborhood itself is known as McKinley Village, or, as a few neighbors ...
A gold prospector in Alaska began calling the peak “Mount McKinley” in 1897 and the name ... Americans call the river in southern Texas the Rio Grande, while Mexico calls it the Rio Bravo.