“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 life in an isolated ghost town, bestselling Alaska author Tom Kizzia unfolds an
American saga of abandonment, renunciation and renewal.

On Sale Summer 2021


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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

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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

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Other Writing

Tom’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Anchorage Daily News, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post and more

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