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To: cotton1706

We bought it, fair and square...................that receipt must be laying around somewhere.................


2 posted on 03/10/2014 9:57:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: Red Badger

I think the price was about $7.2 million. Called Seward’s folly because it was so much money for a “worthless wilderness.”


16 posted on 03/10/2014 10:08:54 AM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished)
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To: Red Badger
We bought it, fair and square...................that receipt must be laying around somewhere.................

It's in the drawer with the receipt for the land we bought from Mexico.

43 posted on 03/10/2014 11:34:23 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
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To: Red Badger
We bought it, fair and square...................that receipt must be laying around somewhere....
I have seen the canceled check and William Seward's desk which at one time were on loan to the Alaska State Museum in Juneau. No refunds, Ivan.
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=10&title.raw=Check+for+the+Purchase+of+Alaska
44 posted on 03/10/2014 11:51:22 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Don't tell me, I'll tell you.)
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To: Red Badger
that receipt must be laying around somewhere.................

If not, it should be on the govt.'s credit card statement....

45 posted on 03/10/2014 11:54:24 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Was Occam's razor made by Gillette?)
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To: Red Badger

If ANYONE could lose Alaska to the Russians... Obama certainly could...

Heck, Putin could lose the state of Nebraska to Liechtenstein...


50 posted on 03/10/2014 12:06:47 PM PDT by GraceG
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