Sitka, Alaska
August 7, 2013 Wednesday
Day 31
This morning we went to the Sitka Historical Museum to view elements from Sitka's Tlingit, Russian and American Pioneer history. As the story goes, in 1741 the Russians "discovered" Alaska, even though the Tlingit and other natives had been here for centuries. Sitka, known then as New Archangel, is located on Baranof Island, and became the capital of Russian America in 1804. In 1867, once the Russians had exhausted the sea otter...