Book review: Tom Kizzia tells the rugged history of McCarthy in 'Cold Mountain Path,' a beautifully written story about the sometimes difficult but almost always generous people who made their lives amidst the wilderness.
Porphyry Press, 344 pages, 2021, $21.95
It was a crime so horrific that the town has become synonymous with it. Somewhat lost owing to the event was the long history of a uniquely Alaskan community where a distinct culture emerged that would help the survivors slowly recover from their trauma.
Kizzia introduces readers to a stream of characters who wandered into McCarthy and left their marks. Mudhole Smith, a pioneer in Alaskan aviation, became a lifeline to the outside for residents. George Flowers, the son of Black Mississippi sharecroppers, walked from Seattle to Alaska somewhere around 1910, found his way into McCarthy, and took to trapping.
More bothersome were government bureaucrats who had their own ideas about what was best for McCarthy, culminating with the National Park Service when Wrangell-St. Elias National Park engulfed the land beyond the town. Residents split over every state and federal proposal made that would impact them. They wanted to maintain their way of life and get what they wanted from the government and outside powers, while maintaining control over what those entities did in the region.
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a crew of workingmen in possession of a good fleet of heavy equipment must be looking for earth to move.”
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