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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Anchorage Daily News --If you want to get a feel for the oil rush days in Alaska, Dermot Cole's AMAZING PIPELINE STORIES will do it.
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Dermot Cole is a long-time newspaper columnist for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Cole grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Montana before moving to Alaska at the start of the pipeline 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 also worked for the Associated Press in Seattle. Cole is the author of Frank Barr, Bush Pilot in Alaska and the Yukon; Hard Driving: The 1908 Auto Race from New York to Paris; and North to the Future: The Alaska Story 1959-2009.
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This review is from: Amazing Pipeline Stories: How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America's Last Frontier (Paperback)
While many would agree that the Cole clan of Fairbanks knows the story of the Interior, nobody can tell it like Dermot Cole. Cole is able to tell a tale about Alaska like no other Cole can. If you want to get a true slice of Interior life, then buy Dermot's books. His twin brother Terrance is not half bad either.
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This book was a wonderful book with plenty of interesting tidbits. I also liked cole's other books including Fairbanks, and Hard Driving.
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This is another of those books full of articles or short stories that make it so easy to read where there are interruptions. That said, this book provides an in-depth impression of pipline workers and how they affected the local culture. Both amusing and interesting, if you've seen the pipeline, you can easily expand on your knowledge of it with this quick read.
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A small photograph on page 20 of the June 2, 1975, issue of Time magazine changed Al Fleming's life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pipeline wages, pipeline boom, pipeline camps, pipeline jobs, pipeline workers, pipeline construction, haul road, yellow trucks, camp rules, pipeline route, pipeline project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prudhoe Bay, Second Avenue, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, North Slope, Yukon River, Alaska State Library, Chamber of Commerce, Isabel Pass, Franklin Bluffs, Galbraith Lake, Los Angeles Times, Frank Moolin, All-Alaska Weekly, United States, Alaska State Troopers, Brooks Range, Fort Wainwright, Laborers Union, North Star Terminals, Richardson Highway, San Francisco, Tom Snapp, University of Alaska, Alyeska President Ed Patton New!
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A small photograph on page 20 of the June 2, 1975, issue of Time magazine changed Al Fleming's life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pipeline wages, pipeline boom, pipeline camps, pipeline jobs, pipeline workers, pipeline construction, haul road, yellow trucks, camp rules, pipeline route, pipeline project Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Prudhoe Bay, Second Avenue, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, North Slope, Yukon River, Alaska State Library, Chamber of Commerce, Isabel Pass, Franklin Bluffs, Galbraith Lake, Los Angeles Times, Frank Moolin, All-Alaska Weekly, United States, Alaska State Troopers, Brooks Range, Fort Wainwright, Laborers Union, North Star Terminals, Richardson Highway, San Francisco, Tom Snapp, University of Alaska, Alyeska President Ed Patton New!
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- The Civil War by Eugene M. Wait on page 2
- The Seven Wonders of the World: A History of the Modern Imagination by John Romer in Back Matter
- Coming into the Country by John McPhee in Back Matter
- Going to Extremes (Plume) by Joe McGinniss in Back Matter
- Big Dams and Other Dreams: The Six Companies Story by Donald E. Wolf in Back Matter
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