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

by Dermot Cole

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780945397465
Publisher:	Epicenter Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/01/1997
Pages:	226
Sales rank:	1,028,278
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Amazing Pipeline Stories is well-researched and written."

--Anchorage Daily News

"If you want to get a feel for the oil rush days in Alaska, Dermot Cole's book will do it."

--Peninsula Clarion

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