Q: When Alaska was admitted into the Union, in 1959, were Texans upset about losing their status as residents of the biggest state?A: At about 268,596 square miles, Texas has reigned as America’s largest state from the time it was admitted, as the twenty-eighth state, on December 29, 1845, to the time Alaska was admitted, as the forty-ninth state, on January 3, 1959. That’s 113 years atop the heap—a pretty good run, if you ask the Texanist.And even though Texas measured an estimated 390,000 square miles when the republic was annexed, Alaska, with roughly 665,384 square miles, is in a whole different class. So ginormous is the Last Frontier that it would cover an entire one-fifth of the Lower 48, Texas included. And since Texans…
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