On the Alaska governor's desk, the horned skull of a musk ox, an ice age relic, is proudly displayed, resting on a collage of pictures of the state.

It was hunted by Mike Dunleavy himself on a trip to an island in the Bering Sea, the narrow strait of water which separates the US from Russia, where Vladimir Putin's plane will cross into American airspace before his first foray onto US soil in almost a decade.

Image: Mike Dunleavy's Musk Ox skull

The governor, the state's most senior politician, proudly tells me that there is another trophy from his hunting trips on show in the nearby airport, a large brown bear hide, encased in glass.

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