Title:
Wasilla : a great place among the lakes. The Centennial history 1917-2017
JLCTITLE245:
by Skip Coghlan.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Big Bend, Wisconsin : Among the Lakes Publishing Co., 2016.
Physical Description:
224 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
ISBN:
9781578336586
Local Note:
ASL: Author's autograph inscription on verso of front cover.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 76-78).
Personal Name:
Skip Coghlan donor
Contents:
Part One: Narrative history -- Part Two: Pictorial history -- Part Three: Family histories.
Part One -- Introduction -- Overview -- What is a Wasilla -- Chapter 1: Long long ago: Beginnings -- Source of the gold -- Ice age -- Chapter 2: 10,000 BC to 1700 AD: Early peoples -- Recovery from the glaciers: Flora & fauna -- First peoples -- Dena'ina speaking people -- Chapter 3: 1700 to 1898: Russians and Euro-Americans -- Russians -- Searching for gold -- Chapter 4: 1898 to 1917: Gold, railroads & homesteaders -- Access -- Willow Creek gold and trails -- Early agriculture -- Homesteading -- Railroads -- Confusion over names -- Chapter 5: 1917 to 1934: a new town -- Getting ready -- The big day -- First years -- Schools -- Mining -- Agriculture -- Further growth -- Chapter 6: 1934 to 1945: Ups and downs -- Matanuska Colony project -- Schools -- Other town changes -- World War II -- Chapter 7: 1946 to 1959: Building to statehood -- The end of World War II -- Homesteading boom -- Kids -- Schools -- Development -- Chapter 8: 1959 to present: Modern era -- The State and Borough -- North Slope oil and the pipeline impact -- The city of Wasilla -- Modern development -- Chapter 9: Present to 2117: the next 100 years -- Bibliography.
Part Two: Pictorial history -- Section A: 1900-1920 -- Section B: 1921-1935 -- Section C: 1936-1945 -- Section D: 1946-present.
Part Three: Family histories.