Bridges to Statehood

Celebrating Alaska’s 50-year statehood anniversary, features not only the last territorial governor Mike Stepovich and the longest serving territorial and state senator John Butrovich as well as Balkan pioneers throughout all of Alaska. is Alaska, from mining to fishing, from fur to bars, from retail to sports, from aviation to politics. Bridges includes the building of the Alaska Highway, bringing communication to the Great Land, and the Alaska state constitutional convention. This is a book celebrating Alaska’s fiftieth anniversary of statehood and told by the talented immigrants who shaped Alaska. Two books in one, Bridges has a short international story of former Yugoslavia through the Hajdukovichs, Stepovichs, Mellicks as well as Ferguson's friends, portraiting the evolution of "the Balkan powder keg," told firsthand by those who lived it. Ferguson brings the story back to Alaska with Nedjo Spaic of Palmer, Alaska: a global personal story of Alaska and the Balkans.

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