Part 1. Prelude to Alaska Highway -- Chapter I. Before the highway came -- II. The Edson Trail -- III. By stage and sternwheeler -- IV. Fort St. John -- V. The madness of the wolf -- VI. Trailing the firebrand of the Rockies -- VII. I blaze the first link in the Alaska highway -- VIII. Dead men's gold -- IX. Mystery man of the Alaska highway [Charles Bedaux; Wallis Simpson; Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor] -- Part II. War trail to Tokyo -- X. America's vulnerable back door -- XI. Lifelines to Alaska -- XII. Northwest Passage by air -- XIII. War trail and Tokyo -- XIV. The highway marches on -- XV. Alaska strikes at Hirohito -- XVI. Pipeline to victory -- XVII. The highway views the future -- Addendum -- Appendix I. -- III.