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Author Silver, Timothy, 1955-

Title Mount Mitchell and the Black Mountains : an environmental history of the highest peaks in eastern America / Timothy Silver
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 322 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Origins -- Footprints -- Mitchell's mountain -- Modernity -- Government -- Murphy's law
Summary This volume looks at the natural and human history of North Carolina's Mount Mitchell, part of the Black Mountain range and the highest peak in the United States. It chronicles the geological forces that created this landscape, traces its environmental change and human intervention
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mountain ecology -- North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount (Mountain) -- History
Human ecology -- North Carolina -- Mitchell, Mount (Mountain) -- History
Mountain ecology -- North Carolina -- Black Mountains -- History
Human ecology -- North Carolina -- Black Mountains -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
Ecology
Human ecology
Mountain ecology
Gebirge
Ökologie
èOkologie.
SUBJECT Mitchell, Mount (N.C. : Mountain) -- Environmental conditions
Black Mountains (N.C.) -- Environmental conditions
Subject North Carolina -- Black Mountains
North Carolina -- Mount Mitchell (Mountain)
North Carolina
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002007158
ISBN 0807863149
9780807863145
Other Titles Mount Mitchell & the Black Mountains