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People & Events
Ruth Gruber taking a photograph, wearing a fur parka

Find out more about the People & Events featured in Building the Alaska Highway.

 People

The Men Who Built the Alaska Highway

Alaska Natives Before Statehood


Events

The Building of the Alaska Highway

The Life of a Highway Builder

The Ferry Disaster at Charlie Lake

Americans and Others Travel to Alaska

Alaska in the 1940s

The U.S. Army and Matters of Race During World War II

Japan Invades the Aleutian Islands

Driving the Highway Today
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