A Rat's Nest of Rails
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A Rat's Nest of Rails

Tundra, Ice, Mosquitoes, and Permafrost: Saga of the Alaska Railroad

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

A Rat's Nest of Rails

Tundra, Ice, Mosquitoes, and Permafrost: Saga of the Alaska Railroad

About this book

That the Alaska Railroad was ever built is astonishing. It was constructed over the most treacherous terrain in the world during the most violent political era in US history. The workforce included anarchists, Bolsheviks, socialists, syndicalists, and labor union organizers against the backdrops of the First World War, Spanish Influenza, the Russian Revolution, American troops in Siberia to keep Russian Socialism from our shore, Japan's relentless gobbling of colonies from Southeast Asia to Siberia, and the Great Red Scare. It was built by the United States military to supply the United States Navy with coal and, in the process, closed coal mining in the Territory of Alaska – to the great anger of the private sector. Then there were the scammers, land speculators, Natives and their land claims, blacks and discrimination, sedition, wages in scrip, permafrost, freezeup/breakup, ration stamps, and environmental damage. A Rate's Nest of Rails is an in-the-weeds look at what it took to construct the only government-funded railway in American history.

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Information

Publisher
Publication Consultants
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781637471968
eBook ISBN
9781637472149
Topic
History
Subtopic
Social History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. The Rat’s Nest Revisited
  6. Rat River
  7. Lieutenant Oscar Pensacola
  8. Harold Morgan, Alaska Northern Scalper
  9. “Ain’t American capitalism special?”
  10. Josephus and Payne
  11. “Malamute Mike” Denslow, Dredge Operator
  12. Johnathan Albert, Track Labor Supervisor
  13. John Rutherford, Alaska Railroad Property Route Manager
  14. Jerry Sandusky, Railroad Spiker
  15. Alaska Railroad Lobbyist Roberto “Bobby” Sandusky
  16. Gerald O’Reilly, Cement man
  17. Charlie Benson, Socialist
  18. Vladimir Ivanovic, Bolshevik
  19. Harold Duncan, Gandy Dancer
  20. Josephine Carlos, Suffragette
  21. Horatio Sandroni, Accounts Receivable
  22. The Seward Territory of Alaska, Gold Railway Robbery of 1926
  23. Johnathan Abernathy, Paymaster
  24. Chauncy “Keys” McDoogle, Telegraph Operator
  25. Seal
  26. “Joe Smith,” Bootlegger
  27. Karen Whittaker
  28. Jethro Sandoval, Cement Mixer
  29. Jonathan Sanders, Coal Mine Claimant
  30. Salmon
  31. Gerald “Bowsprit” Whittaker
  32. Harry Donahue, Alaska Railroad Track Line Supervisor
  33. Billy Jerome, Mule Driver
  34. Gerald Harrison III, Cargo Entrepreneur
  35. Johnny “Snow Deep and Elbow Grease” Fitzsimmons
  36. Pietro Angelini, Contractor
  37. Eagle
  38. Rufus
  39. Philip Marengo, Union Organizer
  40. Harold Donahue, Line Boss
  41. Dangers and Blessings of the Emerging Alaska Railroad
  42. Daniel Benchley, Workman
  43. Stanford Pickford, Rail Spiker
  44. Albert Finley, Teamster
  45. Oliver Harrison, Harrison’s Roadhouse Proprietor
  46. Moose
  47. Sagebrush Bill
  48. Daniel Domani, Bridge Engineer
  49. Norbert Whitesburg, Accountant