http://info.alaska.edu:70/1s/Alaska (World Wide Web Directory, 06/1995)
Alaska was purchased from Russia on March 30, 1867 for $7,200,000. Alaska became the 49th state on January 3, 1959.
Alaska contains 586,412 square miles. It is one-fifth the size of the contiguous United States; 120 times larger than the state of Rhode Island; larger than the three largest states in the union combined.
There is no Cicely, Alaska (but there is a North Pole).