Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- SECTION 1: PLANNING THE HIGHWAY -- 1. The Latent Fear: Canadian-American Relations and Early Proposals for a Highway to Alaska -- 2. T.D. Pattullo and the British Columbia to Alaska Highway -- 3. The Realities of Strategic Planning: The Decision to Build the Alaska Highway -- SECTION 2: BUILDING THE HIGHWAY -- 4. General Bill Hoge and the Alaska Highway -- 5. Cut, Fill and Straighten: The Role of the Public Roads Administration in the Building of the Alaska Highway -- 6. The Army Medical Department and the Construction of the Alaska Highway -- 7. Surveying the Line: The Canadian Participation -- SECTION 3: CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND THE ALASKA HIGHWAY -- 8. The Army of Occupation: Malcolm MacDonald and U.S. Military Involvement in the Canadian Northwest -- Appendix: Note on Developments in North-Western Canada -- 9. The Alaska Highway in Canada-United States Relations -- SECTION 4: THE POSTWAR HIGHWAY -- 10. "Really a Defile Throughout its Length": The Defence of the Alaska Highway in Peacetime -- 11. The Civilian Highway: Public Works Canada and the Alaska Highway, 1964-83 -- SECTION 5: THE IMPACT OF THE ALASKA HIGHWAY -- 12. The Alaska Highway and the Indians of the Southern Yukon, 1942-50: A Study of Native Adaptation to Northern Development -- 13. The Gravel Magnet: Some Social Impacts of the Alaska Highway on Yukon Indians -- 14. The Impact of the Alaska Highway on Dawson City -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.