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Alaska Highway 75Th Anniversary Additional Resources Curated by Lael Morgan Alaska Highway 75th Anniversary Additional Resources Curated by Lael Morgan Boyd, Robert Platt, Jr. Me and Company C, Self-Published, Library of Congress Catalogue Card #92-90656, 1992. Fern Chandonnet, editor, “The Alcan Saga, 1942–1943” in Alaska at War 1941–1945: The Forgotten War Remembered, Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. Coates, Kenneth. “The Alaska Highway and the Indians of the Southern Yukon. 1942–50: A study of Native Adaptation to Northern Development” in The Alaska Highway Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium, Kenneth Coates, editor. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. Cohen, Stan. The Forgotten War: Volume One. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1981. ___, The Forgotten War: Volume Two. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1988. ___, The Trail of 42: A Pictorial History of the Alaska Highway. Montana: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1979. Cruikshank, Julie. “The Gravel Magnet: Some Social Impacts of the Alaska Highway on Yukon Indians,” in: The Alaska Highway Papers of the 40th Anniversary Symposium, Kenneth Coates, editor, Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. (One of my favorites.) Driscoll, Joseph. War Discovers Alaska. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1943. Griggs, William E., Merrill, Philip J. editor. The World War II Black Regiment That Built the Alaska Military Highway. A Photographic History. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, 2002. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/alaska-transcript/ Haigh, Jane. The Alaska Highway: A Historic Photographic Journey.Whitehorse, Yukon: Wolf Creek Books, Inc., 2001. Morgan, Lael, Collection of interviews and notes, 1991–1992. Archived at University of Alaska in Fairbanks, AK, Alaska and Polar Regions Collections, Elmer E. Rasmuson Library. ___, “Writing Minorities Out of History: Black Builders Of The Alcan Highway,” Alaska History, A Publication of the Alaska Historical Society, Vol. 7, No. 2, Fall 1992, 1–13. Neuberger, Richard. “Alcan Epic,” Yank Magazine, February 10, 1943, 20–22. www.unz.org/Pub/Yank-1943feb10-00020. Olsenius, Richard. “Alaska Highway, Wilderness Escape Route,” National Geographic, October, 1991, 68-69. PBS, American Experience: Building the Alaska Highway. Interviews. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/interview/alaska-interviews/ PBS, American Experience: Building the Alaska Highway. Transcript. www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/alaska-transcript/ Twichell, Heath. The Northwest Epic: The Building of the Alaska Highway. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. (Won the Allan Nevis Price in American History 1992) Twichell Sr., Heath Colonel. Letters, 1942. Archived at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Office of History, Humphreys Engineer Center, Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Virtue, John. The Black Soldiers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four US Army Regiments in the North, 1942–1943. North Carolina: McFarland and Company Publishers, 2013. (Excellent overview) .
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