Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 - Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Seri - Diana L. Di Stefano - Books - University of Washington Press - 9780295993140 - September 10, 2013
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Encounters in Avalanche Country: A History of Survival in the Mountain West, 1820-1920 - Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and BiographyEmil and Kathleen Sick Book Seri

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Every winter, early settlers of the US and Canadian Mountain West could expect to lose dozens of lives to deadly avalanches. This book uncovers stories of survival struggles, frightening avalanches, and how local knowledge challenged legal traditions that defined avalanches as Acts of God.

192 pages, 20 b&w illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released September 10, 2013
ISBN13 9780295993140
Publishers University of Washington Press
Pages 192
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 23 mm   ·   431 g

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