Alex Christy

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Some writers have tended to downplay the importance of the Spanish to the exploration of Alaska, citing as evidence the lack of permanent settlements and only a handful of remaining Spanish place-names scattered across the map. Yet it was the Spanish reach north from Mexico into the North Pacific that concerned Russia from the time of Peter the Great. Yes, the English would sail these waters and interject themselves into the fray, and somewhere, far, far away over the rugged Coast Range, there were English colonies, but for the better part of a century, it was the Spanish who were on the most ...more
Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
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