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Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier

Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Dermot ColePublish date:1997-05-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:Epicenter Press (WA)ISBN-13:9780945397465ISBN-10:945397461UPC:9780945397465Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.51 x 5.51 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCQ5Z7FW54
In the 1970s, the world's largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile $8 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. Workers by the tens of thousands headed north, hoping to make their fortunes working on the pipeline, in a stampede that dramatically affected Alaska. With the avalanche of big money and new arrivals came new problems: drugs, prostitution, gambling, and violent crime. Rapid economic and social changes ultimately touched the lives of virtually every Alaskan. Journalist Dermot Cole, dean of the Alaska press corps, recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Epicenter Press (WA)ISBN-13:9780945397465ISBN-10:945397461UPC:9780945397465Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Social HistoryBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.51 x 5.51 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.69Product ID:SCQ5Z7FW54
Dermot Cole is a long-time newspaper columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. He grew up in Pennsylvania before moving to Alaska at the start of the Alaska oil boom. He studied journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was named a Michigan Journalism Fellow in 1986-87 at the University of Michigan. He is the author of three other books about Alaska history.
Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)

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