By Rebecca Poulson American soldiers arrived in Sitka in October of 1867 to take possession of Russia’s claims in North America. The Army pulled out a decade later, leaving Alaska first to the U.S. Treasury Department, and then to the U.S. Navy. Alaska finally got a civil government in 1884, after 17 years of American … Continue reading The Legacy of Sitka’s First Ten Years Under the American Flag, 1867-1877