Three groups of natives lived in Alaska: Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians.
Europeans first discovered Alaska in 1741, when Danish explorer Vitus Bering sighted it on his long voyage from Siberia. The first settlement in Alaska was established by Russian whalers and fur traders on Kodiak Island in 1784.
Alaska was unexplored in 1867 when Secretary of State William Seward arranged for its purchase from the Russians for $7,200,000 (about two cents per acre). The purchase was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.”
Alaska is the largest state in the union (1/5 of the entire USA) and is twice as big as Texas. #FastFact #State #Alaska
Europeans first discovered Alaska in 1741, when Danish explorer Vitus Bering sighted it on his long voyage from Siberia. The first settlement in Alaska was established by Russian whalers and fur traders on Kodiak Island in 1784.
Alaska was unexplored in 1867 when Secretary of State William Seward arranged for its purchase from the Russians for $7,200,000 (about two cents per acre). The purchase was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.”
Alaska is the largest state in the union (1/5 of the entire USA) and is twice as big as Texas. #FastFact #State #Alaska
Three groups of natives lived in Alaska: Eskimos, Aleuts, and Indians.
Europeans first discovered Alaska in 1741, when Danish explorer Vitus Bering sighted it on his long voyage from Siberia. The first settlement in Alaska was established by Russian whalers and fur traders on Kodiak Island in 1784.
Alaska was unexplored in 1867 when Secretary of State William Seward arranged for its purchase from the Russians for $7,200,000 (about two cents per acre). The purchase was widely ridiculed as “Seward's Folly.”
Alaska is the largest state in the union (1/5 of the entire USA) and is twice as big as Texas. #FastFact #State #Alaska
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