Anchorage, Alaska's largest city, is about 15 miles from Hope as the bald eagle flies, but there's no bridge or boat across the sticky glacial silt covering the bottom of Turnagain Arm. Smith, 44, ...

HOPE, Alaska − Fifty miles from the nearest gas station, where the dirt road dead-ends at the old gold mining claims, bluegrass music drifted into the night. Dressed in mosquito-net shirts customized ...