Sarah Palin's Alaska Sunday showcased pop culture’s most prominent politician enjoying the surroundings of her home state, as she went whitewater rafting, panned for gold, served customers at the pie shop she used to work at in college and visited a kennel full of sledding dogs.

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While Kate Gosselin's annoyance with roughing it stole the show last week, this week's standout guest was Palin family friend Gerald “Bones” Groff, a veteran miner who oversaw "a Palin family tradition” -- panning for gold.

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Sarah Palin told Bill O'Reilly on Thursday's O'Reilly Factor that she hasn't lost any credibility politically just because she's gotten into the reality TV game with her hit TLC show, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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On the show, which has chronicled the outdoorsy life of the prominent Alaskan family, we've seen Sarah gutting fish, hunting caribou and even rubbing shoulders with another prominent reality TV mom, Kate Gosselin.

Palin told O'Reilly she lived up to her promise to "do all that I could to promote Alaska," adding that with the highest-rated debut in TLC history, she feels she'd doing a good job of promoting not only the state, but its’ resources as well.

Kate Gosselin was clearly not a happy camper during her visit to Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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The hit TLC show Sunday night featured Kate and her brood traveling to Alaska, where they met up with Palin.

At first, the two women found common ground. "There's not a whole lot of people that I run into that can understand the scrutiny [from] the media and beyond," Kate said, to which Sarah agreed, saying the common denominator between Kate and she is that "we will put our children first.”

Sarah Palin welcomed Kate Gosselin and her eight children to her Alaskan home so she could take them camping and RadarOnline.com has a sneak preview.

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In the episode, Palin prepares Gosselin for their trip into the wild outdoors by taking her to a bear safety class and rifle practice.

“I have never camped for real,” Gosselin said.

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“Our ruggedness is really a mystery to people in the lower 48,” Palin said.

Sunday’s episode of TLC's Sarah Palin's Alaska saw the former Governor, her father and a family friend embark on a hunting trip for caribou, giving her an opportunity to show off her skills with a hunting rifle on national TV.

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"Many remote areas of Alaska, there's no grocery store," the TLC star said in the episode. "It's four or five hundred miles away ... we don't have the advantage -- the animals have the advantage."

We also got a good look at Palin's proud father, Chuck Heath, in the episode.

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"She carries her own weight, whether it's hunting or fishing or politics," Heath said of his daughter. "Anything Sarah Palin does, she does with all four feet, let me tell you that.

We were also intrigued by the preview of next week's episode, which features the Palin clan getting a visit from another reality TV family, the Gosselins.

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In it, Kate Gosselin clearly looks out of her element in her trip to the great outdoors, as the 35-year-old mother-of-eight is anything but comfortable roughing it during a camping trip in the rain.

The episode airs Sunday at 9/8c on TLC; Palin’s new book, America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag, is in stores now.

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While Bristol Palin has been getting all the headlines for her surprising stint on Dancing With The Stars, two of her siblings, brother Track and sister Willow, were the stars on Sunday's edition of TLC’s newest hit, Sarah Palin's Alaska.

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In the episode, the family celebrated the Fourth of July weekend with a fishing expedition on Bristol Bay, hoping to catch some of the region's famed salmon.

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According to a new report from Life & Style, Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow was seen by a peer knee-deep in a two-bit drug deal in the parking lot of a Wasilla, Alaska Target in December of 2009, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Lance Nezaticky - a former classmate of Willow - said the Palin daughter pulled up in a car with a male friend, who paid $20 for marijuana and handed it to her.