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SCOUT· 66%53m·2021-04-12·History88: “The Last Frontier:” The Purchase of Alaska and the Klondike Gold Rush
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“This is my last opportunity to make a big haul. Alaska is the last West.” This is the story of the US purchase of Alaska and the famous Klondike Gold Rush. Russia needs funds and sees its territory of Russian-America as a liability. That has US Secretary of State William Henry Seward seeing opportunities, such as…
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