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Alaska is known as the 49th state, only becoming a state of the United States in 1959. By that point, however, it had been colonized, first by the Russian Empire, and settled by non-indigenous populations since at least 1730s or earlier. Alaska was known as a land of rich resources and, when the US purchased the land in 1867, it also became a key part of US national defense.
==Russian Settlement==
==US Purchase==
==Becoming a State==
==Summary==
==References==
==Russian Settlement==
==US Purchase==
==Becoming a State==
==Summary==
==References==
