The longtime Washington journalist turned author of several books on US history, including one about the man who seems to be ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

in Alaska, to Mount McKinley; a change nobody — not even Republicans in Alaska — wanted. Denali is a Koyukon Athabascan word that means “the high one” — the tallest mountain in North ...

In 1967, Mount McKinley (Denali) witnessed two pivotal ... North America’s highest peak, McKinley (6,190m) is located within the Alaska Range in Denali National Park. It was first summited ...