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Title "Answer at once" : letters of mountain families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938 / edited by Katrina M. Powell
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 174 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; Foreword ; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Processes of Displacement and the Development of Shenandoah National Park during 1930s America; 1934 Removing Materials, Collecting Wood, and Requesting Assistance; 1935 Requesting Buildings, Harvesting Crops, and Extending Permits; 1936 Resolving Disputes and Demanding Park Officials' Responsibility; 1937 Defending Honor; 1938 Maintaining Daily Life; Epilogue: Remaining Concerns and Revising Eminent Domain Laws; Bibliography; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Mountain people -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- Correspondence
Mountain people -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Internally displaced persons -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Mountain life -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- Sources
Internally displaced persons
Mountain life
Mountain people
SUBJECT Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources
Shenandoah National Park (Va.) -- History -- Sources
Subject United States -- Shenandoah River Valley
Virginia -- Shenandoah National Park
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Powell, Katrina M., 1976-
LC no. 2009012448
ISBN 0813928907
9780813928906
1280489995
9781280489990
9786613585226
661358522X