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Prologue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | |
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Introduction: Crossing the Next Frontier | |
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The Land before Time (Prehistory--1728) | |
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Mountains, Glaciers, and Innumerable Rivers | |
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First Steps, Continuing Traditions | |
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Lifting the Veil: An Empire Up for Grabs (1728-1865) | |
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The Czar Looks East | |
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Spanish Entradas | |
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Cook and Vancouver | |
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Port des Francais | |
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Lord of Alaska | |
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God Is in His Heaven | |
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Limitations of Empire | |
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Seward's Folly: Two Cents an Acre Becomes a Heck of a Deal (1865-1897) | |
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Last Guns of the Civil War | |
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The Telegraph Survey and Mr. Dall | |
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Two Cents an Acre | |
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Boston Men in the Pribilofs | |
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John Muir Visits Glacier Bay | |
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Sheldon Jackson's Missionary Zeal | |
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Untangling the Rivers | |
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The Lewis and Clark of Alaska | |
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Juneau, or Whatever Its Name Is | |
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One for the Duke | |
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Go North: The Rush Is On (1897-1915) | |
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Fortymile, Circle, and the Sourdoughs of Rabbit Creek | |
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The Trails of '98 | |
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Two Towns and a Railroad | |
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One Man's Summer Vacation | |
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Last Stops of the Mining Frontier | |
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Crest of the Continent | |
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Copper, Kennecott, and One Heck of a Railroad | |
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Preserving the Bounty | |
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The Day the Sky Turned Black | |
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Interlude: The Calm between the Storms (1915-1941) | |
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Alaska's Railroad | |
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The First Iditarod | |
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Conflicting Views, Continuing Battles | |
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Salmon on the Run | |
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Thrill 'em, Spill 'em, but Never Kill 'em | |
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Knocking around the Gates | |
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Farmers in the Matanuska | |
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Never the Same Again | |
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The Forgotten Campaign: World War II in Alaska (1941-1945) | |
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The Rush to Get There | |
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The Darkest Chapter | |
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No Place to Fight a War | |
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Victory | |
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Postwar Rumblings: Statehood and Earthquake (1945-1964) | |
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Offspring of Victory | |
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Logging the Forests | |
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Cold War Standoff | |
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The Forty-ninth Star | |
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Oil Boom on the Kenai | |
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A New Meaning of Wilderness | |
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Earthquake! | |
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North Again: This Time the Gold Is Black (1964-1980) | |
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Black Gold | |
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The Blue Canoes | |
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The Long, Long Road to ANCSA | |
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Working on the Pipeline | |
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A Capital Move | |
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The Permanent Fund | |
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Whose Land? Competing Claims (1980-2001) | |
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d-2 Becomes ANILCA | |
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The Big One | |
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Toward a New Economy | |
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ANWR--2001 | |
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Postscript to an Era, Prologue to the Next | |
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Epilogue: Alaska--a Sense of Scale | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |