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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men: Shepperson Series in Nevada History

Autor Renée Corona Kolvet, Victoria Ford Cuvânt înainte de Richard O. Davies
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2015 – vârsta ani
The Great Depression of the 1930s had a devastating impact on sparsely populated Nevada and its two major industries, mining and agriculture. Luckily, thanks to Nevada’s powerful Senate delegation, Roosevelt’s New Deal funding flowed abundantly into the state. Among the programs thus supported was the Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal program intended to provide jobs for unemployed young men and a pool of labor for essential public lands rehabilitation projects. In all, nearly thirty-one thousand men were employed in fifty-nine CCC camps across Nevada, most of them from outside the state. These “boys,” as they were called, went to work improving the state’s forests, parks, wildlife habitats, roads, fences, irrigation systems, flood-control systems, and rangelands, while learning valuable skills on the job. Rural communities near CCC camps reaped additional benefits when local men were hired as foremen and when the camps purchased supplies from local merchants.
 
The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada is the first comprehensive history of the Nevada CCC, a program designed to help the nation get back on its feet, and of the “boys” who did so much to restore Nevada’s lands and resources. The book is based on extensive research in private manuscript collections, unpublished memoirs, CCC inspectors’ reports, and other records. The book also includes period photographs depicting the Nevada CCC and its activities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780874179934
ISBN-10: 0874179939
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 54 b-w photographs
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Nevada Press
Colecția University of Nevada Press
Seria Shepperson Series in Nevada History


Recenzii

“Their demographic and archaeological research will be invaluable to future studies. The inclusion of well-chosen photographs and extended primary source quotations provides an almost museum-like experience in textual form. This work is not only the most comprehensive study of the CCC in Nevada, but the most comprehensive of any CCC state study.” —Oral History Review

" . . . an extremely well-organized book that describes in detail both the history of the CCC and the wide variety of conservation projects it undertook throughout Nevada." -- Environmental History

Notă biografică

Renée Corona Kolvet is a federal archaeologist with a special interest in the Depression-era American West. She has written several articles on the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Indian New Deal and recently completed a photo history of Hoover Dam.
 
Victoria Ford is a former communications specialist for the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. She is an oral historian who has published fifteen books on Nevada and its people.

Descriere

A thorough account of the CCC’s role in revitalizing Nevada