With Picks, Shovels, & Hope: The CCC and Its Legacy on the Colorado Plateau

Wayne K. Hinton; Elizabeth A. Green

ISBN 10: 0878425462 / ISBN 13: 9780878425464

Verlag: Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2008

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0878425462-3-26086025

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In 1933, only days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a new program, the Civilian Conservation Corps, which put three-quarters of a million young men to work restoring forests and farmland, building infrastructure, and fighting fires in America’s national parks, monuments, and forests. Many workers were sent far from home, including thousands who came west to the Colorado Plateau. In this high, dry, and lonesome setting, they encountered natural beauty unlike anything they had ever seen as well as challenges they could not have imagined. Incorporating the men’s own reminiscences, With Picks, Shovels, and Hope tells their story.To this day, visitors reap the rewards of the CCC’s work.With Picks, Shovels, and Hope reveals how our public lands in the Colorado Plateau came to be the magnificent, visitor-friendly places they are. Dozens of beautiful color photographs and historical black-and-whites illuminate this engaging history.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Dr. Wayne K. Hinton holds degrees from Dixie State College, Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and University of California, Davis. After teaching for thirty-eight years at Southern Utah University, eighteen of them as history department chair, he retired in 2006. He has authored four books, numerous journal articles and conference papers, and many other works. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Cedar City, Utah. They have two daughters, two sons, and nineteen grandchildren.Elizabeth A. Green, currently a freelance book editor and writer, has worked as a journalist, a nonprofit administrator, and a social worker. An avid community volunteer in Durango, Colorado, she has served on the local historical society board of directors and as a docent on a steam-powered narrowgauge train. She lives near Durango with her husband, Allen, a retired forester whose father was a CCC camp superintendent in northern Wisconsin.

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Titel: With Picks, Shovels, & Hope: The CCC and Its...
Verlag: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good