Possible Clues:

• Focus of Seward's Folly
• 7.2-million-dollar bargain
• Home of the Tlingit
• State in the manner of knight in South Africa
• State that may be baked? Not by the sun
• Baked creation with a cool center
• Geographical name that means roughly 'great land'
• Gold rush locale
• It's often inset
• The most northerly state of the USA