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A grand start as a romance/adventure set in Alaska, but soon gets bogged down in business and politics. Lots of details towards the end also about building a bridge, so I did a bit of skimming. The heroes are manly men and the villains are evil.The style rather reminded me of God Is an Englishman, which also began as a romance, but turned into a long, involved look at empire building (the railroad system of England).
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The Iron Trail Rex Ellingwood Beach 9781444424997 Books Reviews
Loved this book! Flew through it, then had post-readers remorse that it was over ) I was born and raised in Alaska, and Rex Beach took me back there in vivid clarity and with that lost talent of the writing structure of the early 1900's which wastes no words - where every sentence is rather a masterpiece. I could almost feel that glacier air in my lungs! Could almost hear the jolting CRACK of the great icebergs smacking into each other as they sped along the current of a mighty river! This is my first time reading Rex Beach, and I am definitely on the hunt for more.
I lived and worked in Alaska for a total of five years between 1971 and 1978. I worked for Burgess Construction Co. for a while. Burgess built sections one and seven of the Alaska Pipeline access road and did the foundation excavation for the Yukon River Bridge. In 1967 (or so) Burgess built the drill pad from which oil was discovered. Although the consortium of oil companies were ready to build a crude oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the ice free port of Valdez, environmental concerns and negotiations for the Native Land Claims Settlement Act delayed actual construction until sometime in the early 70's.
One day as I was driving back to Anchorage from Valdez, there was a tunnel located just off the shoulder of the road. The historical interest sign related a brief history of the railroad in Beach's book and the Kennecott copper mine and went on to mention how the story of the RR was memorialized in Rex Beach's book, "The Iron Trail". Hence began my pre internet days of searching for the book. Quite by accident, I found an original print edition at a garage sale in Butte, Montana in 1981. Inside the cover there was an inscription "From A.L. Cabbage Apr. 19, 1919 to Ruth Cyrus, Pomeroy, WN". I am absolute amazed and extremely pleased to find that a copy of this book is now available from .
Much of the opposition to building the pipeline focused on potential harm to the environment. In "The Iron Trail" there were similar environmental arguments for NOT building the railroad. To me, this is what made the book so interesting. Arguments against building the Alaska Pipeline were much the same for not building the railroad in the nineteen hundreds.
Today the railroad is long gone, but the Alaska Pipeline is still functioning and transporting oil and you never hear anything about it. This is a tribute to the engineering and construction effort by literally a cast of thousands.
So, I highly recommend this book. It gives one a good insight into building things in Alaska and a basis to compare today's over bearing and extreme measures needed to comply with environmental regulations to do any construction project.
See http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennecott,_Alaska for more information on the Kennecott copper mine. There is a direct connection to "The Iron Trail".
OK book
Good historical romance. highly recommend to readers of all ages. Learn about railroad history in Alaska and Copper Mine near Cordova AK
I enjoyed this book - it's not the most well written book in the world, but it gives a good background on the GoldRush and was just a good read.
This author's stories of the far north are unbeatable. This one about building a railroad into the interior of Alaska is amazing for it's financial and legal intrigue, not to mention the action and romance it contains. Rex Beach is right up there with James Oliver Curwood in his depiction of the environment and characters of early Canada and Alaska.
One of the best adventure stories I have read about Alaska, I had read The Silver Hoard written by this author but I have to say this was much better. The first book was about the salmon industry and this was about building a railroad and a bridge in seemingly impossible conditions and area, it was very tense and fast reading with some of the best characters you will read about and great dialogue that was very witty, I can't wait to read another book by this writer.
A grand start as a romance/adventure set in Alaska, but soon gets bogged down in business and politics. Lots of details towards the end also about building a bridge, so I did a bit of skimming. The heroes are manly men and the villains are evil.
The style rather reminded me of God Is an Englishman, which also began as a romance, but turned into a long, involved look at empire building (the railroad system of England).
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