Alaska
America's last frontier. On
March 30, 1867, the United States agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2
million dollars, about two cents an acre; "Seward's Folly" many called
it, after Secretary of State William H. Seward. A check for $7,200,000.00 was
issued on August 1, 1868 and made payable to Edouard de Stoeckl, the Russian Minister
to the United States.
In McKinley Village Alaska, the
"family car" has wings, vegetables and fruit grow to two times their
normal size and moose interrupt golf games when they feel like it. |
