By Tom Masters
Sixth edition
For twenty years Lonely Planet has been the Europe professional. even if you're absorbing background in Britain or sunlight in Spain, crossing the Arctic Cirle or cruising the Bosphorus, our sixth version is helping you discover the continent.
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The greatest project Alaska the 49th state of the US on was the 1,440-mile (2,304-km) Alaska January 3, 1959. Highway, which connected Alaska to the rest of the US by road (see pp298– 9). This phenomenal feat involved punching a route through trackless territory, felling trees, and bridging wild rivers. Despite incredible hardships, the project was completed in eight months and 12 days, and the road was opened on October 25, 1942. STATEHOOD In 1942, Anchorage had a population of just 7,724, but the development brought about by the war caused that Mile 0 marker of the Alaska Highway in the town of Dawson Creek, Canada Alaska State flag and US flag 1942 Japanese invade the Aleutian Islands; Alaska Highway completed 1923 Completion of the Alaska Railroad 1920 1930 1955 Alaskans elect delegates to a constitutional convention 1940 1950 1924 Congress extends 1935 Matanuska 1943 US forces citizenship to Native Americans Valley Project brings families from the US Midwest to farm in Alaska finally repel the Japanese from the Aleutians 1922 Native voting rights established 1956 Voters adopt the new Alaskan constitution 1960 1959 Alaska becomes a state on January 3 56 I N T R O D U C I N G Anchorage’s 4th Avenue a day after the massive 1964 Good Friday earthquake THE OIL BOOM In 1957, oil was discovered in Cook Inlet and by the mid-1960s, platform installations were producing 200,000 barrels of oil per day.
Other popular races include the Yukon Quest, Glennallen’s Copper Basin 300, which is a qualifier for the Iditarod, and the World Championship Sled Dog Races. Racers come from all over the world to serve apprenticeships with established mushers and to learn how to care for the dogs and cope with the elements. Denali Park Rangers use sleds to patrol the park in winter, but summer visitors can watch demonstrations of dogsleds adapted for use on trails. Team dogs follow the swing dogs and provide a steady pulling action.
The willow ptarmigan, the official state bird, is seen all year round. Its plumage, brilliant white in winter, becomes a mottled brown in summer to blend in with the forest floor. A P O R T R A I T O F A L A S K A 31 FRESHWATER BIRDS During the spring and summer mating season, Alaska’s lakes and muskeg attract ducks, snow geese, trumpeter and tundra swans, blue herons, loons, and several species of grebes. Sandhill cranes, which perform an elaborate mating dance, can easily be seen in Creamer’s Field in Fairbanks (see p174).