Prudhoe Bay governor: Alaska's Keith Miller

By Keith Harvey Miller

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878100998
• ISBN13: 9781878100993
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Todd Communications
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

engrossing story about Alaska's forgotten governor

Keith Miller wrote a rather engrossing and interesting autobiography of his life. The key of his near forgotten fame was that he was the governor of Alaska for only two years but yet, an important two years as Prudhoe Bay was being opened up and he was Alaska's point man during that time. Miller led a somewhat of an interesting life and most of the book geared toward his life. By chance, he became our governor when Wally Hickel went to Washington DC to be the Interior Secretary for President Nixon. Most Alaskan historians thought he did a decent job but he lost his job to Bill Egan "Mr. Alaska" himself so Miller faded from the public scene to a point where he doesn't even lived in Alaska anymore. But reading his book, it not too surprising that is so. Miller seem to be your classical transient. Of all our governors we had in this state, Miller had less roots and commitments to our state then any of them. He have led an interesting life but he's an opportuntist in Alaska, homesteaded and became an politican. Still, the book read very well and Miller's life, while never exciting or adventuresome, proves to be classical Alaskan story even if his stay in our state proves to be limited.