AH Challenge: Republic of Alaska

So, the challenge is having a Republic of Alaska with a POD after 1800. And also, how would this sovereign nation look today?
 
Fremont not taking California out of the Union was a very near thing. So we butterfly it away by having Grant not notice till too late that two thirds of his troops have marched off to the goldfields, unlike OTL? Or make the butterfly earlier?
1845, discovery of gold in California, and then in Nevada. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans show up and start a country. No Mexican war?
1850, discovery of gold in Alaska at Juneau and Nome, then up the Yukon river to the real goldfields. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans show up and start a country. Russia is too far away to bother fighting to keep it? Or, Russia and Britain are fighting the Crimean war and they are too busy?
Newfoundland stayed independent of Canada for four hundred years. Would Alaska stay independent of California?
 
Fremont not taking California out of the Union was a very near thing. So we butterfly it away by having Grant not notice till too late that two thirds of his troops have marched off to the goldfields, unlike OTL? Or make the butterfly earlier?
1845, discovery of gold in California, and then in Nevada. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans show up and start a country. No Mexican war?
1850, discovery of gold in Alaska at Juneau and Nome, then up the Yukon river to the real goldfields. One hundred and fifty thousand Americans show up and start a country. Russia is too far away to bother fighting to keep it? Or, Russia and Britain are fighting the Crimean war and they are too busy?
Newfoundland stayed independent of Canada for four hundred years. Would Alaska stay independent of California?

Well the real gold fields in the Yukon where in British terr. not Alaska... and if you think that 150,000 americans are gonna show up and make an independent Alaska + I presume the Yukon...then You need to go back to school and re-read your history books about the policing of the RCMP with respect to the miners in the Klondike.
 
You could have Alaska sold to Japan (like in that other thread) and then in WW2 the Americans liberate it and declare a republic.
 
The Republic of Alaxsaq

1799 -- Russian-American Trading Company chartered by Tsar Paul.

1804 -- First permanent Russian settlement established at Novo-Archangelsk.

1812 -- Russians establish Krespost Rus in what is now California. They abandon it in 1841.

1849 -- Gold rush in California.

1857 -- Gold rush in Oregon.

1867 -- The US agrees to purchase Alaxsaq (which they plan to call Alaska)from Russia.

1867 -- With payment held up and the purchase agreement with the US in doubt, the Russian government looks to sell the commercial interests of the Russian-American Trading Company. A group of businessmen from San Francisco, California purchases those assets in November.

1868 -- The US House of Representatives defeats a bill that would pay for the purchase of Alaxsaq. The purchase is abandoned in July.

1868 -- A consortium of San Francisco business men have an October meeting with "high ranking administration officials" in the Republic of Oregon's capital to discuss mutual interests in Alaxsaq.

1869 -- Anticipation builds throughout the spring as rumors spread that Alaxsaq will soon declare its independence. The Republic of Alaxsaq is proclaimed on May 30.

1869 -- The Russian Empire recognizes Alaxsaq's independence in July after receiving a settlement in gold from the governments of California and Oregon.

1871 -- The Klondike region is purchased from the Hudson Bay Company.

1876 -- The border between Alaxsaq and Oregon is settled.

1896 -- The Klondike/Yukon gold rush begins.

1898 -- The Anvil/Nome gold rush begins.

1902-03 -- RCMP officers attempt to aggitate unrest among miners in the Yukon basin.

1907 -- "Berger's War" errupts in White Horse.

1912 -- Alaxsaq, California and Oregon sign the Pacific & Northwest Pact.

1918 -- Since its adoption in 1869, only one change has been made to Alaxsaq's flag. A white star was added at the end of World War I.

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Have the Russians maintain control of Alaska into the 20th century (if in name only), then have it Finland its way out of the Empire during the Russo-Japanese or First World War.
 
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