List of Illustrations ........................................ viii
List of Maps .................................................... x
List of Tables .................................................. x
Preface and Acknowledgments .................................... xi
Introduction: Looking Backward and Forward ...................... 1
Part I: The Great Land and Its Native Peoples
1 Alaska's Prehistory: The Land and the First Americans
Debate ...................................................... 15
2 Alaska's Ancestral Native Peoples ........................... 23
Part II: Аляска: Russian Alaska
3 Russian Expansion into Siberia and Exploration of North
America ..................................................... 33
4 The Second Kamchatka Expedition ............................. 39
5 The Early Russian Fur Trade ................................. 49
6 The Age of Alexander A. Baranov, 1790-1818 .................. 59
7 Russian Naval Rule, 1818-67 ................................. 73
8 The Sale of Russian America ................................. 87
Part III: U.S. Territorial Alaska
9 American Settlement of Alaska: The Army, Treasury
Department, and Navy Phase, 1867-84 ......................... 99
10 The Great Gold Rush and Its Aftermath ...................... 123
11 Normalcy, the Depression, and the New Deal ................. 157
12 Alaska's Strategic Role in World War II .................... 175
13 Ramifications of War: Evacuations and Censorship ........... 189
14 The Cold War ............................................... 201
Part IV: The State of Alaska
15 Alaska's Rocky Road to Statehood ........................... 219
16 Managing Alaska's Oil Resources ............................ 235
17 Transition to Statehood .................................... 249
18 Alaska's Oil Economy in the 1970s and 1980s ................ 267
19 Native Land Claims ......................................... 283
20 The Native Regional Corporations ........................... 301
21 Land Claims and Land Conservation .......................... 309
22 The Oil Boom ............................................... 319
23 The Oil Industry Matures ................................... 335
Part V: Modern Alaska
24 The Unconventional Walter "Wally" J. Hickel ................ 361
25 The Knowles Years, 1994-2002 ............................... 371
26 Into the Twenty-first Century .............................. 383
Appendices
A Commanders in Alaska and Effective Dates of Command;
Composition and Tours of Duty of the Alaska Garrisons ...... 403
B Important Placer Gold Discoveries .......................... 406
C Federal District Court Judges before Statehood ............. 407
D Delegates to Congress ...................................... 408
E Alaska's Population, 1880-2003 ............................. 409
F The Governors of Alaska .................................... 416
G Native Regional Corporations, 2006 ......................... 418
Notes ......................................................... 429
Bibliographical Essay: The Sources of Alaska's History ........ 459
Index ......................................................... 489
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