Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920
Diana L. Di Stefano, "Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 "
English | ISBN: 0295993146 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0295993146 | 2013 | 192 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
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.
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