Poetry and Alaska: William Henry Seward’s Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte’s “An Arctic Vision”

• Main Authors: Ian N. Higginson, Bret Harte, William Henry Seward, Frederick Whymper
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1996
• Subjects: Key words; Alaska purchase; American imperialism; Arctic poetry/criticism; British Columbia; Canadian confederation; Francis; Arctic; Canada; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.491.9575; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic50-4-334.pdf

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...