With Picks, Shovels, and Hope: The CCC and Its Legacy on the Colorado Plateau - Softcover

Hinton, Wayne K.; Green, Elizabeth A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878425462 ISBN 13: 9780878425464

Publisher: Mountain Pr, 2008

Synopsis

In 1933, only days after his inauguration, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt launched a new program, the Civilian Conservation Corps, which put three-quarters of a million young men to work restoring forests and farmland, building infrastructure, and fighting fi res in America s national parks, monuments, and forests. Many workers were sent far from home, including thousands who came west to the Colorado Plateau. In this high, dry, and lonesome setting, they encountered natural beauty unlike anything they had ever seen as well as challenges they could
not have imagined. Incorporating the men s own reminiscences, With Picks, Shovels, and Hope tells their story.

To this day, visitors reap the rewards of the CCC s work. With Picks, Shovels, and Hope reveals how our public lands in the Colorado Plateau came to be the magnifi cent, visitor-friendly places they are. Dozens of beautiful color photographs and
historical black-and-whites illuminate this engaging history.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Wayne K. Hinton holds degrees from Dixie State College, Utah State University, Brigham Young University, and University of California, Davis. After teaching for thirty-eight years at Southern Utah University, eighteen of them as history department chair, he retired in 2006. He has authored four books, numerous journal articles and conference papers, and many other works. He and his wife, Carolyn, live in Cedar City, Utah. They have two daughters, two sons, and nineteen grandchildren.Elizabeth A. Green, currently a freelance book editor and writer, has worked as a journalist, a nonprofit administrator, and a social worker. An avid community volunteer in Durango, Colorado, she has served on the local historical society board of directors and as a docent on a steam-powered narrowgauge train. She lives near Durango with her husband, Allen, a retired forester whose father was a CCC camp superintendent in northern Wisconsin.

Review

During the great depression, president Franklin Delano Roosevelt created a Civilian Conservation Corps that put some three million young boys to work and called it "the reclamation of natural resoures and the r3ecdlamation of young American manhood." Between 1933 and 1941, young people from all over the United States lived in various camps scattered over the Colorado Plateau and run by the military. During this time, they arrested soil erosion on twenty million acres, restored 3,980 historic buildings, planted four billion trees and fought forest fires. They built roads and bridges and strung 89,000 miles of telephone line. They developed state parks and built trails in the Grand Canyon. The results of their labors can be seen today in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. The young men learned new skills, discipline and self assurance, and at the same time helped the country recover its economy since $20 of their $25 salary went directly to their families. The book includes personal histories of many individuals helped by the program. --Southwest Books of the Year 2008

Edition details

• Publisher: Mountain Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0878425462
• ISBN 13: 9780878425464
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288