A map of the United States, including color-coded routes of significant explorers and early roads used by travelers and Native Americans such as the Kittaning Path, the Great Trail, the Great Indian ...

The surveyors would map the exact route ... Finally, on October 25, at 4 p.m., the final gap in the Alaska Highway route was closed. A ceremony on November 20 officially marked the completion ...

1942, U.S. Army. Signal Corps. When President Franklin Roosevelt authorized the building of the Alaska Highway in February 1942, the problem of who would actually do the construction quickly arose.