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Subject: happy? - Mar 30 (Seward's Folly) From: Abby Sale Date: 30 Mar 06 - 08:58 AM Secretary of State WH Seward for the US and Baron Eduard de Stoeckl for Russia sign the Alaska purchase on 3/30/1867. The price—$7,200,000—amounted to about two cents per acre. (In at least one state, the last Monday of March is recognized as Seward's Day.),
Song refers to the Taku Polaris Gold Mine, near the Alaska panhandle, by miner Bill Lore, to Phil Thomas in his Songs of the Pacific Northwest. JB, DigTrad filename[ TAKUMINR
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