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Blair Braverman

Author of the 2016 memoir, Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube, Blair Braverman is a Wisconsin-based nonfiction writer and dogsledder. Her work has appeared in This American Life, The Atavist, Buzzfeed, Orion, and The Best Women's Travel Writing.

Seward paid $200,000 extra to get the territory “free and clear.”

The Everlasting, Awe-Inspiring Power of Alaska

For 150 years, Alaska has been a part of the United States, and it’s never ceased to amaze