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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933-1942 (Shawnee Books)
Kay Rippelmeyer
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Description for The Civilian Conservation Corps in Southern Illinois, 1933-1942 (Shawnee Books)
Hardcover. This book details the Depression era history behind the simultaneous creations of the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, where enrollees at twenty-six camps worked on soil and forest conservation projects. A camp compendium provides photographs, the work history and company rosters of each camp. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 29. Weight in Grams: 966.
Drawing on more than thirty years of meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer details the Depression-era history of the simultaneous creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. Through the stories of the men who worked in CCC camps devoted to soil and forest conservation projects, she offers a fascinating look into an era of utmost significance to the identity, citizens, wildlife, and natural landscape of the region, Rippelmeyer outlines the geologic and geographic history of southern Illinois, from Native American uses of the land to the timber industry’s decimation of the forest by the ... Read more
Drawing on more than thirty years of meticulous research, Kay Rippelmeyer details the Depression-era history of the simultaneous creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. Through the stories of the men who worked in CCC camps devoted to soil and forest conservation projects, she offers a fascinating look into an era of utmost significance to the identity, citizens, wildlife, and natural landscape of the region, Rippelmeyer outlines the geologic and geographic history of southern Illinois, from Native American uses of the land to the timber industry’s decimation of the forest by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Carbondale, United States
ISBN
9780809333653
SKU
V9780809333653
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Ref
99-15
About Kay Rippelmeyer
Kay Rippelmeyer, a southern Illinois native, is a former lecturer, researcher, and academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and the author of Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps: A History in Words and Pictures. A program liaison for the Illinois Humanities Council, she has researched southern Illinois history for more than thirty years ... Read more
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