The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains

by Margaret Lynn Brown

Book Overview

The Wild East explores the social, political, and environmental changes in the Great Smoky Mountains during the 19th and 20th centuries. Although this national park is most often portrayed as a triumph of wilderness preservation, Margaret Lynn Brown concludes that the largest forested region in the eastern United States is actually a re-created wilderness - a product of restoration and even manipulation of the land. Between 1910 and 1920, corporate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081302093X
• ISBN13: 9780813020938
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 479 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"