Poetry and Alaska : William Henry Seward's Alaskan Purchase and Bret Harte's "An Arctic Vision"

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Higginson, Ian N.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1997
• Subjects: Alaska purchase; American imperialism; Arctic poetry/criticism; British Columbia; Canadian confederation; Francis Bret Harte; William Henry Seward; Frederick Whymper; achat de l’Alaska; impérialisme américain; poésie/critique arctique; Colombie-Britannique; Confédération canadienne; Arctic; Canada; Lier; Pacific; Arctique*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64171

On 30 March 1867, William Henry Seward, American Secretary of State (1861-69), provoked controversy both 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...