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Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2013]

1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations, map

ISBN 9780295804828 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780295993140 (hardback)

Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography

Print version: Di Stefano, Diana L. Encounters in avalanche country : a history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920. Seattle : Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press, [2013] x, 171 pages, [20] pages of plates ; 24 cm. Emil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography ISBN 9780295993140

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index

Includes bibliographical references and index

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"-- Provided by publisher..

"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.-.

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