The wild east : a biography of the Great Smoky Mountains /

"The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Although this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret L. Brown concludes that the largest forested...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Margaret Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2000.
Series:New perspectives on the history of the South.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.)
Écologie humaine > Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Car. du N. et Tenn.)
HISTORY > State & Local > General.
Ecology.
Human ecology.
United States Local History.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) > History.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (N.C. and Tenn.) > Environmental conditions.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Car. du N. et Tenn.) > Histoire.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Car. du N. et Tenn.) > Conditions environnementales.
United States > Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Forest economies
  • 2. A lumberman's dream
  • 3. Scenery in the eminent domain
  • 4. Landscaping a park out of the wilderness
  • 5. A lake in the national defense
  • 6. Drive-in wilderness
  • 7. Bearly managing tourons
  • 8. Still not a wilderness
  • 9. In search of the wild east
  • 10. Global threats, local conspiracy theories.

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