 |
The Alaska Highway |
| The road to adventure
begins with these materials on the famous Alaska Highway. Click
on the title to check for location and availibility. You may
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| Hoyt Axton The Alaska Highway, 1942-1992 VHS 979.804 ALASKA This video traces the highway's construction and history and takes a contemporary trip on today's highway 50 years after its completion. |
| Phyllis Lee Brebner The Alaska Highway: A Personal & Historical Account of the Building of the Alaska Highway N 338.109712 BREBNER A good introduction to the history of the highway's construction, with lots of photos |
| Jim Christy Rough Road to the North: Travels Along the Alaska Highway N 979.8 CHRISTY A down-to-earth travelogue about driving the highway during pipeline construction days. |
| Ken Coates North to Alaska! Fifty Years on the World's Most Remarkable Highway N 388.10971187 COATES The story of the highway, told by a historian who grew up in Whitehorse. |
| Stan Cohen The Trail of '42: A Pictorial History of the Alaska Highway N 979.8 COHEN A best-selling history, mostly photographs. |
| Terence M. Cole Alaska or Bust: The Promise of the Road North N 979.8 COLE A well-illustrated museum exhibit catalog. |
| G. Hayden Alaska Road Log: Covering Twenty-five Days on the Alaska Highway, 1946 N 917.98 HAYDEN Diary of a trip down the highway in the fall of 1946. |
| William R. Hunt Passage to the North: A Traveler's Companion to the Historic Sites and Frontier Legends Along the Alaska Highway N 917.98 HUNT A mile-by-mile history of the highway, told by a former University of Alaska history professor. |
| The
Milepost: Trip Planner for Alaska, Yukon Territory, British Columbia,
Alberta & Northwest Territories N 917.98 MILEPOS Published annually, this is the oldest and best-known guide to driving the Alaska Highway and other northern roads. |
| Lael Morgan "Writing Minorities Out of History: Black Builders of the Alcan Highway" Alaska History, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Fall 1992). [magazine article] AK PERIODICAL One-third of the soldiers who built the highway were African-American. |
| Tom Morgan Slim and John's Great Adventure VHS 979.804 SLIM-AN Video story of a 1939 motorcycle trip over the proposed route of the Alaska Highway. |
| David A. Remley Crooked Road: The Story of the Alaska Highway N 388.1 REMLEY Includes much oral history by construction workers. |
| Fred M. Selkregg,
Jr. The Intrepid Selkreggs Beat the AlCan, October 1958 N 979.8 SELKREG A family leaves Illinois in a Buick Roadmaster pulling an enormous trailer, drives the highway, and finds a new home in Anchorage. |
| Heath Twichell Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway N 979.8 TWICHEL The best academic history of the highway. |
| Iris Woolcock The Road North: One Woman's Adventure Driving the Alaska Highway, 1947-1948 N 917.98 WOOLCOC A plucky photographer drives her Jeep up the highway, pulling a 33-foot trailer. |
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For more information, click on these subject headings to search the library catalog: Alaska Highway |
| Web Sites Alaska Visitor Information: Driving - The official website of the State of Alaska with links to road information, weather, maps, driving distances, and emergency information. The Alcan Highway - A brief history from the Library of Congress's America's Story. The Milepost - Highways of the North, current weather by community, driving distance calculator, Alaska Highway FAQs. |
| Topic Trails are produceced by Anchorage
Municipal Libraries Adult Services 1/2002 |