The sale of Alaska to the United States triggered a ... utilize the northwest coast was in prosecution of the fur trade. But that trade has declined and nearly run out by the destruction of ...

and the challenges faced by Alaska's people. Let's take a trip back to that historic day in 1867, when the deal known as "Seward's Folly" took place. The Russian Empire, driven by the fur trade ...

Sea otters were once common around the North Pacific but were eradicated from southeast Alaska by about A.D. 1830 due to the commercial fur trade. In the 1960s, sea otters were re-introduced to ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

In Alaska, the Americans foresaw a potential for gold, fur and fisheries, as well as more trade with China and Japan. The Americans worried that England might try to establish a presence in the ...