Description
Within the 1970s, the arena’s largest construction companies invaded Alaska in a wild rush to build the 800-mile $8 billion trans-Alaska pipeline. Employees by the tens of thousands headed north, hoping to make their fortunes working at the pipeline, in a stampede that dramatically affected Alaska. With the avalanche of huge money and new arrivals came new problems: drugs, prostitution, gambling, and violent crime. Rapid economic and social changes in the long run touched the lives of almost each and every Alaskan. Journalist Dermot Cole, dean of the Alaska press corps, recollects the most productive of the pipeline stories with humor, authenticity, and drama.