Encounters in avalanche country: a history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820 - 1920

"Every winter, early settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers, and their families forced individuals and communities to develop knowledge, share strategies, and band toget...

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1. Verfasser: Di Stefano, Diana L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Seattle, Wash. [u.a.] Univ. of Washington Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography
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Zusammenfassung:"Every winter, early settlers of the U.S. and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This constant threat to trappers, miners, railway workers, and their families forced individuals and communities to develop knowledge, share strategies, and band together as they tried to survive the extreme conditions of "avalanche country." The result of this convergence, author Diana L. Di Stefano argues, was a complex network of formal and informal cooperation that used disaster preparedness to engage legal action and instill a sense of regional identity among the many lives affected by these natural disasters.Encounters in Avalanche Country tells the story of mountain communities' responses to disaster over a century of social change and rapid industrialization.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index.
Beschreibung:X, 171 S., [10] Bl. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:9780295993140