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

Di Stefano is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks."Encounters in Avalanche Country is an important work about how humans knew and were shaped by their environments in the American West. It is an intelligent, sophisticated, well-written, intensely researched, tho...

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Main Author: Di Stefano, Diana L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press [2013]
Series:Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography
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Online Access:KUBA1
Summary:Di Stefano is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks."Encounters in Avalanche Country is an important work about how humans knew and were shaped by their environments in the American West. It is an intelligent, sophisticated, well-written, intensely researched, thoughtfully structured, deeply felt, and clearly hard-won piece of historical scholarship." -Kathryn Morse, author of The Nature of Gold"--
Item Description:Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 online resource (204 pages) illustrations, map
ISBN:9780295993140
9780295804828

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