LEADER 05605nam 2200805 450 001 9910824202703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-295-80482-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072407 035 $a(EBL)3444561 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001062137 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11985653 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001062137 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11111633 035 $a(PQKB)11241898 035 $a(OCoLC)864139640 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27806 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444561 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10808906 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL810655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444561 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072407 100 $a20130729h20132013 ub| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEncounters in avalanche country $ea history of survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 /$fDiana L. Di Stefano 210 1$aSeattle :$cCenter for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (192 p.) 225 1 $aEmil and Kathleen Sick series in Western history and biography 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-295-99314-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index. 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a""Contents ""; ""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 ""; ""Illustrations following page 52 "" 330 $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. 410 0$aEmil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography. 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zRocky Mountains 606 $aMountain life$zWest (U.S.) 606 $aMountain life$zRocky Mountains 606 $aAvalanches$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aAvalanches$xSocial aspects$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aAvalanches$zRocky Mountains$xHistory 606 $aAvalanches$xSocial aspects$zRocky Mountains$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zWest (U.S.)$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zRocky Mountains Region$xHistory 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aFrontier and pioneer life 615 0$aMountain life 615 0$aMountain life 615 0$aAvalanches$xHistory. 615 0$aAvalanches$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aAvalanches$xHistory. 615 0$aAvalanches$xSocial aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a978/.02 686 $aHIS036110$aNAT041000$aSCI042000$2bisacsh 700 $aDi Stefano$b Diana L$01630944 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824202703321 996 $aEncounters in avalanche country$93969501 997 $aUNINA