With Picks, Shovels, & Hope: The CCC and Its Legacy on the Colorado Plateau | 
 enlarge | Authors: Wayne K. Hinton, Elizabeth A. Green
Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 173060
Media: Paperback
Edition: First
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 7.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0878425462
Dewey Decimal Number: 333.7615097881
EAN: 9780878425464
ASIN: 0878425462
Publication Date: September 10, 2008
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Product Description
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 fi res 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 magnifi cent, visitor-friendly places they are. Dozens of beautiful color photographs and
historical black-and-whites illuminate this engaging history.
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A survey replete with fine color photos of Colorado natural landscapes November 17, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
While WITH PICKS, SHOVELS AND HOPE: THE CCC AND ITS LEGACY ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU will likely be a top pick for Colorado libraries, any interested in public lands management, Depression-era history, or the Civilian Conservation Corps will find this a key historical guide. It tells the story of a group of young men who worked to restore forests, farmlands and more in America's national public lands, and it provides a survey replete with fine color photos of Colorado natural landscapes, throughout. A fine achievement.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
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