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With picks, shovels, and hope : the CCC and its legacy on the Colorado Plateau / Wayne K. Hinton with Elizabeth A. Green ; foreword by Robert W. Audretsch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2008Description: xv, 288 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 19 x 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • General
ISBN:
  • 9780878425464 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0878425462 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • With picks, shovels & hope [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 333.76/15097881 22
LOC classification:
  • S932.C6 H56 2008
Summary: At the height of the Great Depression, two of America's richest resources- it's young men and it's public lands- were in peril. As unemployed young men despaired at their prospects for earning a living for themselves and their families, choking duststorms stripped away the farmland and fire ravaged the nation's forests. Only days after taking office in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a new program to help save both treasures. Within months, the Civilian Conservation Corps had put three quarters of a million young men to work restoring forest and farmland, building infrastructure, and fighting fires in America's National Public Lands.
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Books John Tomay Memorial Library Colorado History CO HIST 333.76 HIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 3GTPL00064457Y

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-283) and index.

At the height of the Great Depression, two of America's richest resources- it's young men and it's public lands- were in peril. As unemployed young men despaired at their prospects for earning a living for themselves and their families, choking duststorms stripped away the farmland and fire ravaged the nation's forests. Only days after taking office in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt launched a new program to help save both treasures. Within months, the Civilian Conservation Corps had put three quarters of a million young men to work restoring forest and farmland, building infrastructure, and fighting fires in America's National Public Lands.

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