The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome faced a bleak winter. It was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and unrelenting blizzards, and under siege from a contagious disease known as the “strangling angel” for the way it suffocated children.

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order calling for North America’s tallest peak — Denali in Alaska — to be renamed Mount McKinley.

During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump suggested he wants to revert the name of North America’s tallest mountain — Alaska’s Denali — to Mount McKinley. Here's why:

King and many others who live in the mountain’s shadow say most Alaskans will never stop calling the peak Denali, its Alaska Native name, despite President Donald Trump’s executive order that the name revert to Mount McKinley — an identifier inspired by President William McKinley, who was from Ohio and never set foot in Alaska.

22, 2014. (Bob Hallinen / ADN) After statehood, people in Alaska worked to get the name changed to Denali, but ran into a major barrier: Ohio — the home of former President McKinley. In 1975 ...

President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to rename North America's tallest peak, Denali in Alaska, as Mount McKinley — reviving an idea he'd

The dispute went back 40 years, when in 1975 Alaska first expressed its desire to use the local reference to the mountain. Politicians from Ohio, McKinley's home state, held up any movement on the request with regular legislation. McKinley, a Republican ...

The 47th president is wading back into a century-long dispute over the name we give to North America’s tallest mountain

The Alaska House has voted to urge President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali

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Phil was once hit with a tongue-in-cheek indictment by an Ohio prosecutor who was tired of the cold weather and accused the Seer of Seers of “misrepresenting Spring.” While those “charges” were notably dropped, the beloved groundhog still sometimes ...