A smokehouse and cabin were the only buildings at the mouth of Ship Creek when a railroad construction camp was built there in 1915. Today, Anchorage is the transportation center of Alaska.
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Shem Pete, a fourteen-year-old Dena'ina Indian boy, witnessed the birth of Anchorage in 1915 when he came from Susitna Station in a dory to sell his bear skins. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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United States, Cook Inlet, World War, Alaska Railroad, Ship Creek, Copper River, North Slope, Turnagain Arm, Anchorage Daily Times, Fourth Avenue, Prudhoe Bay, Matanuska Valley, Eagle River, New York, Fort Richardson, Knik Arm, Air Force, Alaska Airlines, Southcentral Alaska, Tony Knowles, University of Alaska, Anchorage International Airport, Prince William Sound, Alaska Highway, Secretary of the Interior New!
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Shem Pete, a fourteen-year-old Dena'ina Indian boy, witnessed the birth of Anchorage in 1915 when he came from Susitna Station in a dory to sell his bear skins. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pipeline workers, statehood bill, pipeline construction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cook Inlet, World War, Alaska Railroad, Ship Creek, Copper River, North Slope, Turnagain Arm, Anchorage Daily Times, Fourth Avenue, Prudhoe Bay, Matanuska Valley, Eagle River, New York, Fort Richardson, Knik Arm, Air Force, Alaska Airlines, Southcentral Alaska, Tony Knowles, University of Alaska, Anchorage International Airport, Prince William Sound, Alaska Highway, Secretary of the Interior New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Who Owns America? by Walter J. Hickel on page 149, and Back Matter
- Coming into the Country by John McPhee on page 160, and Back Matter
- Bill and Lily by William Stolt on page 56, and Back Matter
- A Warm Past: Travels in Alaska History, Fifty Essays by S. Haycox in Back Matter
- The Olympic Games by Michael Grant on page 144
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- Alaska, an American Colony by Stephen W. Haycox in Back Matter
- A Cheechako Goes to the Klondike: The Personal Story of a Famous River Boat Captain (Alaska Book Adventures (Epicenter Press)) by Charles W Adams in Back Matter
- Portrait of Alaska by Hilary Hilscher in Back Matter
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