Bridges to Statehood: TheAlaska-Yugoslav Connection

Celebrating Alaska's 50-year statehood anniversary, Bridges to Statehood features the last territorial governor Mike Stepovich. Over the Klondike Chilkoot Trail's icy steps, these sons of Viches came—Stepovich, Butrovich, Dapcevich, Begich, Paskvan, and Peratrovich—to guide Alaska from a raw land to statehood, from southeast to the arctic, from gold camps to the forty-ninth star! Names so Alaskan that their Slavic stories went untold, they represented the world's former empires and today's Balkan states and shaped all of Alaska. 404 pages with maps, timeline, and historic photos on every page." [CAN STOP HERE OR INCLUDE:] Bridges to Statehood is Alaska, from mining to fishing, from fur to bars, from retail to sports, Bridges includes the building of the Alaska Highway, bringing communication to the Great Land, and the Alaska state constitutional convention. Judy has also included a contrast to the Great Land, her lifelong history with the former Yugoslavia, presented through her friends, the people of the Balkans. This is a book celebrating Alaska's fiftieth anniversary of statehood and told by the talented immigrants who shaped Alaska.