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Pages: 456
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Lehigh University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 447
Pages: 447
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: [Fairbanks, Alaska] : University of Alaska Press
Awarded the 1993 W. Turrentine Jackson Prize of the Western History Association, given for a professional historian's first book on "any aspect of the history o
Language: en
Pages: 273
Pages: 273
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-15 - Publisher: University of Alaska Press
Subzero temperatures, whiteout blizzards, and even the lack of restrooms didn’t deter them. Nor did sneers, harassment, and threats. Wildcat Women is the firs
Language: en
Pages: 228
Pages: 228
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
In the 1970s, the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile $8 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. Workers by the te
Language: en
Pages: 249
Pages: 249
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-15 - Publisher: University of Alaska Press
In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic f