Synopsis

A single two-lane road, stretching an impressive 1,522 miles, now allows travelers from British Columbia to journey north through the Yukon Pass toward Fairbanks, Alaska: the famed Alaska Highway. Though occasionally challenging and most easily navigated during the brief summer season, it remains a remarkable achievement of engineering, constructed in just eight months by some 11,000 soldiers—nearly 4,000 of whom were Black Americans—who forged a path through history, linking the contiguous Unit