Title:
Engineer in high heels : building Alaska's Arctic ice road : memoir of an abandoned mother of four
JLCTITLE245:
Edna Arend Witcher.
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Publication Information:
[United States] : Edna Arend Witcher, [2012]
Physical Description:
205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781467928137
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Contents:
Chapter 1. Abandoned -- Chapter 2. Edna's era -- Chapter 3. Single mom -- Chapter 4. Night classes -- Chapter 5. Woman engineer -- Chapter 6. California (1968) -- Chapter 7. Moving to Alaska -- Chapter 8. Move from Juneau to Fairbanks -- Chapter 9. Fairbanks memoirs -- Chapter 10. Fairbanks (1973-1974) -- Chapter 11. A frozen winter trail: "The beginning" -- Chapter 12. North Slope: an unforgiving terrain -- Chapter 13. A once in a lifetime project -- Chapter 14. Brief explanation of highway design -- Chapter 15. Camp description -- Chapter 16. Camp names & construction segments -- Chapter 17. Camp life -- Chapter 18. My job at Dietrich -- Chapter 19. Project engineer diary contents -- Chapter 20. Labor unions -- Chapter 21. My life in Fairbanks -- Chapter 22. The workers -- Chapter 23. Excessive road costs -- Chapter 24. My career -- Chapter 25. Romance and the job -- Chapter 26. Disaster Creek -- Chapter 27. Final roadway link-up -- Chapter 28. My reflections -- Chapter 29. Fairbanks: a gold rush town -- Chapter 30. End of an era -- Chapter 31. Conclusion and investigative report -- Chapter 32. Yukon River brideg design & construction.