Walking my dog, Jane : from Valdez to Prudhoe Bay along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

Rozell, Ned 1963- (Author).

Summary: "Rozell describes the wildlife and scenery of Alaska; homesteaders who in the 1960s nearly starved on a diet of grouse and hares while taming their piece of Alaska; a husband and wife recovering from alcohol and drug addictions by running a hamburger stand on the Yukon River; gold miners who stubbornly pick at a hillside above the Arctic Circle with tools a century old; a pipeline worker who commutes 3,000 miles every two weeks to be with his son in San Diego." "As Rozell discovers on his 120-day journey, the frontier still exists in Alaska."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780820703350
ISBN: 0820703354
ISBN: 9780820703145
ISBN: 0820703141
Physical Description: 342 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Pittsburgh : Duquesne University Press, ©2000.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

1 Valdez 19 -- 2 Stepping into Alaska 34 -- 3 Thompson Pass 42 -- 4 Golf Under the Volcanoes 50 -- 5 Copper Center 61 -- 6 Alaska Roadhouse 79 -- 7 68 Cans of Pop 89 -- 8 Black Rapids Glacier 95 -- 9 I'm Kind of Like You 100 -- 10 Last of the Homesteaders 109 -- 11 Things That Go Bump 129 -- 12 North Pole 134 -- 13 Fairbanks 142 -- 14 Heart 150 -- 15 You Have a Dog ... Be Happy 168 -- 16 When Less is More 175 -- 17 The Hot Spot 184 -- 18 Arctic Circle 203 -- 19 The 3,000-Mile Commute 213 -- 20 Someone to Share Things With 227 -- 21 Coldfoot 233 -- 22 Wiseman 237 -- 23 Frozen Hell 263 -- 24 Out in the Sticks 267 -- 25 The Shangri-La of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline 286 -- 26 To See the World 294 -- 27 Sagwon 297 -- 28 End of the Line 309 -- 29 Going Home 327.