Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
(Part of the Emil and Kathleen Sick Series in Western History and Biography Series)
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Every winter 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 Di Stefano argues, was a complex network...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0295995408
ISBN13:9780295995403
Release Date:August 2015
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:192 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"
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