I'm not sure how to ask this question so here it goes.
For the sake of discussion, let’s say that the US has gained up to 54-40 by 1855 and has set its eyes on the entire pacific coast, which the US greedily snatches up in 1857 when it purchases Alaska from Russia. Great Britain is obviously mad because they have just virtually lost the entire North American Pacific coast to the US. Unfortunately the US is also unhappy because Alaska is hardly the contiguous winter wonderland they had planned. Great Britain has is also making it difficult by refusing to recognize its new borders or something. So as a compromise during the 1862 Stikine Gold Rush the US offers a trade of sorts: Great Britain gets everything North and East of the Yukon River and the continental divide and the US gets everything south and west. This would result in a north/south divided Alaska between GB and US, a nice contiguous continental US, and a pacific coast for Canada near OTL Nome, AK.
Plausible? Probable?
For the sake of discussion, let’s say that the US has gained up to 54-40 by 1855 and has set its eyes on the entire pacific coast, which the US greedily snatches up in 1857 when it purchases Alaska from Russia. Great Britain is obviously mad because they have just virtually lost the entire North American Pacific coast to the US. Unfortunately the US is also unhappy because Alaska is hardly the contiguous winter wonderland they had planned. Great Britain has is also making it difficult by refusing to recognize its new borders or something. So as a compromise during the 1862 Stikine Gold Rush the US offers a trade of sorts: Great Britain gets everything North and East of the Yukon River and the continental divide and the US gets everything south and west. This would result in a north/south divided Alaska between GB and US, a nice contiguous continental US, and a pacific coast for Canada near OTL Nome, AK.
Plausible? Probable?
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