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Sitka

noun

A town in southeastern Alaska that was the capital of Russian America and served as the capital of Alaska from 1867 until 1906.

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"Sitka" Quotes from Famous Books

... Raymond and Spencer Manning, travel to Alaska to join their father in search of their uncle. On their arrival at Sitka the boys with an Indian guide set off across the mountains. The trip is fraught with perils that test the lads' courage to the utmost. All through their exciting adventures the lads demonstrate what can be accomplished by pluck and resolution, ...

— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis

... Alaska was organized as a Territory, and after digging the snow out of Sitka, so that the governor should not take cold in his system, it was ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... Sitka Charley smoked his pipe and gazed thoughtfully at the Police Gazette illustration on the wall. For half an hour he had been steadily regarding it, and for half an hour I had been slyly watching ...

— Love of Life - and Other Stories • Jack London

... was American territory and that all intruders from other nations were poachers. In accordance with this theory, the revenue cutter Corwin in 1886 seized three British vessels and hauled their skippers before the United States District Court of Sitka. Thomas F. Bayard, then Secretary of State under President Cleveland, did not recognize this theory of interpreting the treaty, but endeavored to right the grievance by a joint agreement with France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and Great Britain, the sealing nations, ...

— The Path of Empire - A Chronicle of the United States as a World Power, Volume - 46 in The Chronicles of America Series • Carl Russell Fish

Words linked to "Sitka" : town, Alaska, AK, Sitka spruce, Last Frontier