OP here, its a shame that I missed this posts moment in the sun. The Wikipedia article, which I also posted to HN, but missed the limelight discusses why it wa

OP here, its a shame that I missed this posts moment in the sun. The Wikipedia article, which I also posted to HN, but missed the limelight discusses why it was called Seward's Success: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward%27s_Success,_Alaska https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seward%27s_Success,_Alaska