The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country by University Of Nevada Press

The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country by University Of Nevada Press

Part of the massive relief effort of Roosevelt's New Deal, the ccc was created in 1933 to give young men an opportunity to work and make money to help families devastated by the Great Depression, and to participate in forest and conservation projects across the country. In Arizona, thousands of young men, many of them from the industrial Northeast, served in the state's ccc forest camps. Arizona's Mogollon Rim is a spectacular expanse of cliffs that slices through half the state, stretching from Sedona eastward to New Mexico. Along with the White Mountains, it includes the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine in America. Remote and little-visited in the 1930s, the Rim Country offered copious outlets for the ccc men's energies: building roads, public campsites, hiking trails, fire lookout towers, and administration buildings; fighting fires; controlling erosion; eliminating vermin; and restoring damaged soils. The ccc enrollees were also given an opportunity to continue interrupted educations, learn useful skills and self-discipline, participate in sports and other leisure activities, and meet local residents. Author Robert J. Moore interviewed a number of ccc veterans who served in the Rim Country, and their stories are part of this book. So too are photographs - many of them from veterans' personal collections - of Rim Country camps and workers, and such emphemera as camp newspapers. This is an engrossing account of several thousand young men who came to Arizona to escape the misery of the Great Depression, whose work in the woods changed the state, and who in the process were themselves changed. Here is the human face of Arizona's ccc, the men's experiences, their work, and their lasting impact on the forests of the Rim Country.

"From The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country "I can truly say that the ccc was the best time in my lifeWithout hesitation, the ccc turned this country around and built its superstructure back to 'Grade A.' For the men, it meant life or death to thousands, in fact millions, of men who were just existing at the time, rather than fully living."

Robert J. Moore was an American history teacher in the Scottsdale, Arizona, school district. He also worked for many years as a seasonal interpretive ranger in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona. He currently lives and teaches in Verona, Wisconsin.

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ISBN 13	9780874176773
ISBN 10	0874176778
Title	The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country
Author	University Of Nevada Press
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Nevada Press
Year published	2006-07-17
Number of pages	176
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