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

Author: Dermot Cole
Publisher: Epicenter Press
Keywords: pipeline, life, america, frontier, transformed, last, alaska, stories, building, trans, amazing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0945397461
ISBN-13: 9780945397465

Book Description:

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. Nearly a quarter-century later, Fairbanks journalist Dermot Cole recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.


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