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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

... America, inland, upward, to impregnable and swarming places, Of what Indiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and the rest, are to be, Of what a few years will show there in Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and the rest, (Or afar, mounting the Northern Pacific to Sitka or Aliaska,) Of what the feuillage of America is the preparation for—and of what all sights, North, South, East and West, are, Of this Union welded in blood, of the solemn price paid, of the unnamed lost ever present in my mind; Of the temporary use of materials for identity's sake, Of ...

— Leaves of Grass • Walt Whitman

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