The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (190721). VOLUME XVII. Later National Literature, Part II.
XIV. Travellers and Explorers, 18461900.
§ 34. Alaska.
Besides the outlying possession of the Philippines, the United States became owner by purchase in 1867 of Russian America, afterwards named Alaska. Seward was ridiculed for making such a purchase in the frozen north, and it was long derided as Sewards Ice-box. The vast number of publications favourably describing this region belie this term, and it is now well understood that Seward secured a treasure house for a pittance. |
104 | Sewards Address on Alaska at Sitka, August 12, 1869, in Old South Leaflets, Vol. 6, No. 133 (1904) is interesting in this connection. There are a great number of reports, and narratives like those of the veteran William H. Dall; Captain W.R. Abercrombies Alaska, 1899, Copper River Exploring Expedition (1900); Henry T. Allens Report of an Expedition to the Copper, Tanana, and Koyukuk Rivers in the Territory of Alaska in the Year 1885 (1887); M. M. Ballous The New Eldorado, a Summer Tour in Alaska (1889); Reports by A. H. Brooks; Miss Scidmores Alaska (1885), etc. |
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