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

Cole OLE, Dermot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0945397461 ISBN 13: 9780945397465

Verlag: Epicenter Press, Incorporated, 1997

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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.

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Dermot Cole is a long-time newspaper columnist for theFairbanks Daily News-Miner. Cole grew up in Pennsylvaniaand lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Montana before movingto Alaska at the start of the pipeline boom. He studied journalismat the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was named aMichigan Journalism Fellow in 1986-87 at the University ofMichigan. He also worked for the Associated Press in Seattle.He lives north of Fairbanks with his wife, journalist DebbieCarter, and their children, Connor, Aileen, and Anne. Theyenjoy cross-country skiing in winter and camping, soccer, andsoftball in the summer.

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America needed the oil. In the aftermath of the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74, during which Americans waited hours in line to buy rationed gasoline, the world's largest construction companies rushed north to build the 900-mile, $8 billion Trans-Alaska Pipeline. National security was at stake.

Many of the 70,000 men and women who worked on the pipeline saw it as a way to find a new life, or to escape an old one. The three-year boom was unlike any other, surpassing even the Gold Rush for social and economic upheaval that touched nearly every Alaskan in some way.

With an avalance of oil money came trouble -- drugs, prostitution, gambling, divorce, extortion, and violent crime. The cost of living soared. The real-estate and rental market went wild as tens of thousands came seeking fat pipeline paychecks for "seven 12s" - working seven days a week, twelve hours a day.

Thirty-five years later, award-winning journalist Dermot Cole of the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, recalls the best of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Epicenter Press, Incorporated
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0945397461
• ISBN 13: 9780945397465
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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