Charles Walker Raymond’s six-month mission in 1869 resulted in not only in the establishment of America’s newest trading post ...

Library of Congress At 4 in the morning on March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward signed a treaty buying Russian America—that is, Alaska—for the cost of two cents per acre ...

Russia initially offered Alaska to the United States in 1859, but the American Civil War delayed negotiations. In March 1867, Secretary of State William Seward revived the proposal, finalising an ...

Many ridiculed Secretary of State William Seward for purchasing Alaska from Russia in 1867. But he turned out to be quite the shrewd businessman. National Treasure: Amelia Earhart Designed a New ...

the Alaska Railroad was started north to Anchorage. Shortly after the arrival of the railroad, the city was named in honor of William Seward, the secretary of state during U.S. President Abraham ...

Civil War veteran Charles Raymond was 27 when he accepted an assignment to visit the new U.S. territory of Alaska, a place so ...

Two years after Secretary of State William Seward had brokered the purchase of Alaska from Russia, U.S. leaders suspected the British trading post at Fort Yukon might be located on American soil.