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Benton MacKaye : conservationist, planner, and creator of the Appalachian Trail
- Author / Creator
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- Online
Details
- Creator
- Larry Anderson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Johns Hopkins pbk. ed
- Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780801890949, 0801890942
- OCLC
- ocn760195926
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: "Expedition 9" -- The MacKaye inheritance, 1879-1896 -- From Harvard Yard to the "primaevial forest," 1896-1903 -- The education of a progressive forester, 1903-1911 -- Raising hell, 1911-1915 -- Reclaiming America's wild lands for work and play, 1915-1916 -- Employment and natural resources, 1917-1919 -- Turning point, 1919-1921 -- First steps along the Appalachian Trail, 1921-1923 -- The Regional Planning Association of America and the Appalachian Trail Conference, 1923-1925 -- The new exploration, 1925-1928 -- Trailwork and the "townless highway," 1928-1931 -- "RP = TH + AT + HT," a formula for the New Deal, 1931-1933 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934-1936 -- The Wilderness Society, 1934-1936 -- "Watershed democracy," 1936-1945 -- Wilderness in a changing world, 1937-1950 -- "Geotechnics of North America," 1944-1972 -- Linking action with prophecy, 1953-1975 -- Epilogue: A "planetary feeling."