AHC: Spanish Alaska

The challenge here is to make more-or-less the area of OTL Alaska uncontested Spanish territory in the 19th century, and describe what happens to it in the future (e.g. would the USA acquire it ITTL Spanish American War, disregarding butterflies?)
 
The uncontested part would be difficult. Alaska was claimed by multiple nations because there were so few settlers. It didn't really have anything worth fighting over and therefore attracted few colonists. To get a firm Spanish ownership of Alaska, gold is going to need to be discovered at least a century earlier than OTL. In that period Spain will be the only nation strongly positioned to claim and settle colonists there.
 
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