“Doesn’t he know it’s frozen?” How Alaska almost overlooked Prudhoe Bay

Tom Marshall was a geologist and a land selection officer for Alaska in the 1960s. He was the driving force behind the state’s Prudhoe Bay selection. (Photo by Elizabeth Harball/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
You could argue — and a lot of people do — that  Alaska would be a completely different place if it weren’t for a man named Tom Marshall.
Marshall’s now 91 years old and lives in a little brown house in Anchorage. He won’t bring it up himself, but for m