A typical recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps describes "the best years of his life" at Camp Hard Labor Creek in Georgia and in the shadow of Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens in Washington.
FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand NewOn March 21, 1933, with the nation in darkest despair because of the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in forestry, the prevention of soil erosion, flood control, and similar projects. Thus, just seventeen days after taking office, Roosevelt's New Deal had launched the mobilization of the largest peacetime labor army in American history--helping to save not only the nation's long-neglected natural resources, but also its vastly underemployed youth.In the Shadow of the Mountain recounts the story of Edwin G. Hill, a typical recruit who spent "the most enjoyable and rewarding years" of his life in the Civilian Conservation Corps-the "We can take it" boys. Hill was enrolled for a year at Camp Hard Labor Creek in Georgia and for two years in Washington state in the great "shadow" of Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens. He recounts how recruits gained hope where there was none before, learned skills for lifelong occupations, received education, laughed and roughhoused, met and married local girls, and answered their nation's call during World War II, when nearly 3,000,000 CCC men, accustomed to barracks life and toughened by outdoor work, made a substantial contribution to America's ultimate victory.
Edwin G. Hill retired and lived in Wapato, Washington, where he remained active in CCC veterans' affairs.
Foreword by Craig Holstine
Acknowledgments
Introduction: FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps---My Years in the CCC---
Chapter One: Before My Journey
Chapter Two: The Bottom Falls Out
Chapter Three: Camp Hard Labor Creek
Chapter Four: Long Trail West to Camp Sunset
Chapter Five: Camp Skamania and Mt. Adams
Chapter Six: Camp Cougar and Mt. St. Helens---The CCC Story---
Chapter Seven: The CCC in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter Eight: Accomplishments Across the USA
Chapter Nine: Where Have the CCC Boys Gone?Appendix One: Camp Soda Springs Behavior Book
Appendix Two: Barracks Writers
Appendix Three: History of Fort Lewis CCC District
Selected References
Index
"More than anyone who has written about the CCC from personal experience, Hill, as his subtitle promises, seems to have recaptured something of that organization's spirit."--Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Well organized and historically accurate...a good review of the benefits the CCC provided to its participants."--Columbia Magazine
"Well-chosen photos, maps, camp songs, and regulations add valuable dimensions to this sprightly written account."--Journal of the West
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