[Read and download] Great Smokies: From Natural Habitat To National Park
·•●- Daniel S. Pierce ·•●-
| #3828659 in Books | 2015-04-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.80 x5.90l,.0 | File Name: 1621901645 | 279 pages
||11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.| A political history of the national park|By Arthur Digbee|This book provides a good history of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The subtitle tells you Pierce's emphasis: he sets the stage with some natural history and then moves to the battle to create the park. This campaign stretches across several chapters and makes up the meat of the book. He concludes with on|About the Author|Daniel S. Pierce is professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA.He is the author of Real NASCAR: White Lightning, Red Clay, and Big Bill France, and Corn from a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Seeking a taste of unspoiled wilderness, more than nine 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. Daniel S. Pierce tells how park supporters set about raising money to buy the land-often from resistant timber companies-and describes the fierce infighting between wilderness advocates and tourism bo...
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