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050	0	0	_aF596 _b.E536 2013
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aDi Stefano, Diana L. _e1
245	1	0	_aEncounters in avalanche country : _ba history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 / _cDiana L. Di Stefano.
260			_aSeattle : _bCenter for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, _c(c)2013.
300			_a1 online resource (x, 171 pages).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
340			_2rdacc _0http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003
347			_adata file _2rda
490	1		_aEmil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography
520	0		_a"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.Encounters in Avalanche Country tells the story of mountain communities' responses to disaster over a century of social change and rapid industrialization. As mining and railway companies triggered new kinds of disasters, ideas about environmental risk and responsibility were increasingly negotiated by mountain laborers, at elite levels among corporations, and in socially charged civil suits. Disasters became a dangerous crossroads where social spaces and ecological realities collided, illustrating how individuals, groups, communities, and corporate entities were tangled in this web of connections between people and their environment.Written in a lively and engaging narrative style, Encounters in Avalanche Country uncovers authentic stories of survival struggles, frightening avalanches, and how local knowledge challenged legal traditions that defined avalanches as Acts of God. Combining disaster, mining, railroad, and ski histories with the theme of severe winter weather, it provides a new and fascinating perspective on the settlement of the Mountain West.Diana L. Di Stefano is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks."Encounters in Avalanche Country is an important work about how humans knew and were shaped by their environments in the American West. It is an intelligent, sophisticated, well-written, intensely researched, thoughtfully structured, deeply felt, and clearly hard-won piece of historical scholarship." -Kathryn Morse, author of The Nature of Gold"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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505	0	0	_tAcknowledgments -- _tMap of Avalanche Country Study Areas -- _tIntroduction: Arrival in Avalanche Country -- _tSurvival Strategies: 1820-1860 -- _tMountain Miners, Skiing Mailmen, and Itinerant Preachers: 1850-1895 -- _tIndustrial Mining and Risk -- _tRailway Workers and Mountain Towns: 1870-1910 -- _tWho's to Blame? -- _tDisaster in the Cascades -- _tTopping volume Great Northern Railway Company -- _tDeparture from Avalanche Country -- _tNotes -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex.
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650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _zWest (U.S.)
650		0	_aFrontier and pioneer life _zRocky Mountains.
650		0	_aMountain life _zWest (U.S.)
650		0	_aMountain life _zRocky Mountains.
650		0	_aAvalanches _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aAvalanches _xSocial aspects _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aAvalanches _zRocky Mountains _xHistory.
650		0	_aAvalanches _xSocial aspects _zRocky Mountains _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zWest (U.S.) _xHistory.
650		0	_aHuman ecology _zRocky Mountains Region _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=667243&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell