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Author: Claus-M. Naske Publisher: ISBN: 9780819155771 Category : Roads Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
Traces the development of the structure of the Road Commission and describes how Alaska's road system grew from less than a dozen miles of wagon road shortly after the turn of the century, to a network of 10,000 miles of roads by the time the Commission went out of existence in 1956.
Author: Claus-M. Naske Publisher: ISBN: 9780819155771 Category : Roads Languages : en Pages : 339
Book Description
Traces the development of the structure of the Road Commission and describes how Alaska's road system grew from less than a dozen miles of wagon road shortly after the turn of the century, to a network of 10,000 miles of roads by the time the Commission went out of existence in 1956.
Author: Claus-M. Naske Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
Traces the development of the structure of the Road Commission and describes how Alaska's road system grew from less than a dozen miles of wagon road shortly after the turn of the century, to a network of 10,000 miles of roads by the time the Commission went out of existence in 1956.
Author: Fern Chandonnet Publisher: University of Alaska Press ISBN: 1602231354 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 482
Book Description
Over the course of the past two hundred years, only one United States territory has experienced foreign occupation: Alaska. Available for the first time in paperback, Alaska at War brings readers face to face with the North Pacific front in World War II. Wide-ranging essays cover the war as seen by Alaskan eyes, including the Japanese invasion of the Attu and Kiska islands, the effects of the war on Aleutian Islanders, and the American campaign to recover occupied territory. Whether you’re a historian or a novice student interested in this pivotal period of American history, Alaska at War provides fascinating insight into the background, history, and cultural impact of war on the Alaskan homefront.
Author: Kenneth O'Reilly Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 1496222075 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 343
Book Description
"Asphalt: A History" provides a narrative history of asphalt and its effects from ancient times to the modern day. Although asphalt creates our environment, it also threatens it"--
Author: Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth Publisher: University of Washington Press ISBN: 0295806222 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 310
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This fascinating account of the development of aviation in Alaska examines the daring missions of pilots who initially opened up the territory for military positioning and later for trade and tourism. Early Alaskan military and bush pilots navigated some of the highest and most rugged terrain on earth, taking off and landing on glaciers, mudflats, and active volcanoes. Although they were consistently portrayed by industry leaders and lawmakers alike as cowboys—and their planes compared to settlers’ covered wagons—the reality was that aviation catapulted Alaska onto a modern, global stage; the federal government subsidized aviation’s growth in the territory as part of the Cold War defense against the Soviet Union. Through personal stories, industry publications, and news accounts, historian Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth uncovers the ways that Alaska’s aviation growth was downplayed in order to perpetuate the myth of the cowboy spirit and the desire to tame what many considered to be the last frontier.
Author: Claus-M. Naske Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 9780806125732 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
History of the state of Alaska from early to contemporary times, discussing its native peoples, sale to the United States, gold rush, quest for statehood, and oil boom.
Author: Christine and Dennis McClure Publisher: Little Lands End Publishing, LLP ISBN: 1735841714 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 220
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The United States needed a road to Alaska so they could defend the Aleutians from Japan. They sent soldiers to build the Alaska Highway. The segregated Black 97th Engineers built the road in Alaska, and when their disorganized white officers struggled to make progress, the army replaced their commander. The new one got the job done but ignored military protocol and discipline, so the army, worried about undisciplined black soldiers, replaced him too. And to put the fear of God into the soldiers, the army trumped up a mutiny charge against ten of them and sentenced them to long prison terms at hard labor.
Author: Traveler T Terpening Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides ISBN: 9781841622989 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 472
Book Description
The only guide to feature the destinations in Alaska accessible by rail, car and ferry written by an author who grew up in Alaska and continues to live there today.
Author: Claus-M. Naske
Author: Claus-M. Naske
Author: Claus-M. Naske
Author: Fern Chandonnet
Author: Kenneth O'Reilly
Author: Katherine Johnson Ringsmuth
Author: Claus-M. Naske
Author: Christine and Dennis McClure
Author: United States. Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska
Author: Traveler T Terpening
Author: Lisa Mighetto