Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward’s Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte’s “An Arctic Vision”
at home and abroad by signing the treaty that ceded Russian America to the United States. On the East Coast of America, reactions to the newly renamed Alaska were coloured by a personal antipathy towards Seward and the administration that he served. The British considered the cession unfriendly towa...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.491.9575 2023-05-15T14:19:40+02:00 Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward’s Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte’s “An Arctic Vision” Ian N. Higginson Bret Harte William Henry Seward Frederick Whymper The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 1996 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.491.9575 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-4-334.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.491.9575 http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-4-334.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-4-334.pdf Key words Alaska purchase American imperialism Arctic poetry/criticism British Columbia Canadian confederation Francis text 1996 ftciteseerx 2016-08-14T00:04:01Z at home and abroad by signing the treaty that ceded Russian America to the United States. On the East Coast of America, reactions to the newly renamed Alaska were coloured by a personal antipathy towards Seward and the administration that he served. The British considered the cession unfriendly towards their ongoing foreign policy of Canadian confederation in British North America. Geographically, Alaska, now under United States control, lay menacingly adjacent to the west and north of British Columbia. This potentially vulnerable British colony, which had not then entered the Canadian Confederation, quickly became the focus of conflicting territorial ambitions. For Britain, British Columbia would supply Canada with a much-needed Pacific coastline, while for Seward, it would link Alaska and Washington Territory to form a continuous Pacific coastline for the United States. For ten fraught days, Seward fought to ratify the Alaska treaty. On the West Coast, where the economic benefits of Alaska’s purchase were more immediate, Seward won the approval of the popular press. Among his less likely supporters was the American writer and journalist, (Francis) Bret Harte. Harte, author of such stories of mining life as “The Luck of Roaring Camp, ” and Text Arctic Arctic Alaska Unknown Arctic British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Pacific |
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at home and abroad by signing the treaty that ceded Russian America to the United States. On the East Coast of America, reactions to the newly renamed Alaska were coloured by a personal antipathy towards Seward and the administration that he served. The British considered the cession unfriendly towards their ongoing foreign policy of Canadian confederation in British North America. Geographically, Alaska, now under United States control, lay menacingly adjacent to the west and north of British Columbia. This potentially vulnerable British colony, which had not then entered the Canadian Confederation, quickly became the focus of conflicting territorial ambitions. For Britain, British Columbia would supply Canada with a much-needed Pacific coastline, while for Seward, it would link Alaska and Washington Territory to form a continuous Pacific coastline for the United States. For ten fraught days, Seward fought to ratify the Alaska treaty. On the West Coast, where the economic benefits of Alaska’s purchase were more immediate, Seward won the approval of the popular press. Among his less likely supporters was the American writer and journalist, (Francis) Bret Harte. Harte, author of such stories of mining life as “The Luck of Roaring Camp, ” and |
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