“Cold Mountain—There’s no through trail”
In the winter of 1983, I was a young newspaper reporter in Anchorage, Alaska. We got a news bulletin one night from the state troopers: six dead in a ghost town. The next morning I found myself flying into the past.
Cold Mountain Path
The ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983
In this new history of a lost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds an American saga of abandonment, renunciation and renewal.
Winner of Historian of the Year award, Alaska Historical Society
Winner of the Alaskana Award, Alaska Library Association
“Fascinating and memorable. . . This is the Alaska that myths were made of.” - Anchorage Daily News
Pilgrim’s Wilderness
“Best Alaska True Crime book”
- NY Times Book Review, 2019
“An ambitious literary work disguised as a page-turner”
-Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild
The Wake of The Unseen Object
A new edition of the classic work of Alaska travel writing and journalism from the University of Alaska Press - with a new introduction by the author
Other Writing
Tom’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Anchorage Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, the Columbia Journalism Review and more.
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