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Cold Mountain path, the ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983, Tom Kizzia

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Cold Mountain path, the ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983, Tom Kizzia

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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contains biographical information

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illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cold Mountain path

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1273287447

Responsibility statement

Tom Kizzia

Sub title

the ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983

Summary

"The spirit of Alaska in the old days -- impetuous, free-wheeling, and bounty-blessed -- lived on in the never-quite-abandoned mining town of McCarthy. While the new state boomed in the pipeline era, cagey old-timers and young back-to-the-landers forged a rough wilderness community that lived by its own rules. Pressures grew to improve access for tourists and speculators, and to cordon off the wild surroundings in a national park. Here is the story, hopeful but haunted, of those latter-day pioneers -- from the afternoon the last copper train left the valley, to the icy morning when a man with a rifle brought the lost decades to an end. Cold Mountain Path is loaded up with vivid accounts of heroes and lovers, crackpots and con artists, feuding prospectors and daring bush pilots."--Publisher website

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Ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983

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