Diana L Di Stefano

Encounters in Avalanche Country

A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

Diana L. Di Stefano is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9780295995403
• ISBN-10: 0295995408
• Artikelnr.: 42650956

Autorenporträt

Diana L. Di Stefano is editor of Montana The Magazine of Western History and publications director of the Montana Historical Society Press. She maintains an active research and writing agenda related to disasters in the American West.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Map of Avalanche Country Study Areas
Introduction: Arrival in Avalanche Country
1. Survival Strategies: 1820- 1860
2. Mountain Miners, Skiing Mailmen, and Itinerant Preachers: 1850-1895
3. Industrial Mining and Risk
4. Railway Workers and Mountain Towns: 1870-1910
5. Who's to Blame?
6. Disaster in the Cascades
7. Topping v. Great Northern Railway Company
8. Departure from Avalanche Country
Notes
Bibliography
Index