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The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat To National Park

The Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat To National Park

Pierce, Daniel S.

Paperback

Fiction20th Century United States HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1621901645
ISBN13: 9781621901648
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Apr 30 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than eight million people visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Yet few probably realize what makes the park unusual: it was the result of efforts to reclaim wilderness rather than to protect undeveloped land.

The Smokies have, in fact, been a human habitat for 8,000 years, and that contact has molded the landscape as surely as natural forces have. In this book, Daniel S. Pierce examines land use in the Smokies over the centuries, describing the pageant of peoples who have inhabited these mountains and then focusing on the twentieth-century movement to create a national park.

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