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...every American schoolchild knows, the highest mountain in North America is Alaska's Mount McKinley (elevation: 20,320 ft., a mere 8,708 ft. lower than the Himalayas' Mount Everest). But centuries before paleface cartographers gave the peak that name, Alaskan Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos called it by another: Denali, or "the Great One" in the Athabascan Indian dialect. Now native Alaskans are lobbying hard to restore the original Indian name. The state legislature has adopted a resolution to rechristen the mountain Denali, and both Governor Jay Hammond and Senator Mike Gravel are campaigning to persuade...
...small army of fellow American misfits, took off for the Klondike. A year later he returned with only $4.50 worth of gold dust, but he had struck a mother lode in himself. He discovered he was a writer. After a few short stories in the manner of an Alaskan Rudyard Kipling, he scribbled a rattling yarn about a sled dog named Buck who, when his master was killed, turned wild in a snarling if romantic rejection of civilization. The Call of the Wild sold in the millions and made a myth of its mythmaker. Now, with the publication...
...firms, among them Pacific Gas and Electric and Texas Eastern Corp., banded together in what seemed like an unbeatable consortium called the Arctic Gas Pipeline Project. The group, which at its height included 27 companies, proposed to construct a 48-in. line. It would begin at the Alaskan field of Prudhoe Bay (proven reserves of 26 trillion cu. ft., enough to supply current U.S. needs for more than a year) and follow the northern coastline to Canada's Mackenzie Bay deposits before heading south to carry...
That left two outfits in the running. The first was the El Paso Co., one of the nation's largest gas transmission firms (1976 sales: $1.4 billion). It advocated an "all-American" solution: building a gas pipeline alongside the existing Alaskan oil pipeline to the port of Valdez, where the gas would be liquefied and shipped in special tankers to California...
With the U.S. now importing nearly half the 17.9 million bbl. of oil it consumes each day, the country needs every drop of crude it can squeeze out of the continental shelf. The Baltimore Canyon is hardly the Alaskan North Slope,* though with anywhere from 10 to 50 multistoried drilling rigs directly employing perhaps as many as 3,600 engineers, roughnecks and other workers, it may begin to look a bit like it. Even if the most optimistic guesstimates of the area's reserves (1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of gas) are correct, exploiting...