Ha! Now you're the harbinger of all knowledge about how long people have lived in Alaska. I prefer the income tax days to the destruction oil has wrought on this previously beautiful and untrammeled place. I didn't think life was "hard" back then. Sorry you couldn't handle the last frontier when that's what it was. 

The oil companies can disappear from the planet as far as I'm concerned, they cause immense harm and only serve to make their higher-ups rich. I certainly am not soft enough to want them around in Alaska making life for softies "easier."