Camps and Campsites of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in New Mexico 1933-1942 - Hart, Dirk van
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The impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) on New Mexico is often forgotten, mainly because the subsequent cataclysm of World War II erased it from the public's consciousness. This book is designed to document the state's ninety CCC sites (camps) where 55,000 young men (including 32,000 state residents) actually worked and lived during the grim Great Depression of the 1930s. The impact of the CCC on the state and the nation is incalculable. This book details where the camps were located, how to recognize the sites today, and how to appreciate them in context. This book was named…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) on New Mexico is often forgotten, mainly because the subsequent cataclysm of World War II erased it from the public's consciousness. This book is designed to document the state's ninety CCC sites (camps) where 55,000 young men (including 32,000 state residents) actually worked and lived during the grim Great Depression of the 1930s. The impact of the CCC on the state and the nation is incalculable. This book details where the camps were located, how to recognize the sites today, and how to appreciate them in context. This book was named winner of the Historical Society of New Mexico's 2021 Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award. This award is given annually for an outstanding publication or significant contribution to historic survey and research in New Mexico or Southwest Borderlands history.
Autorenporträt
Dirk Van Hart earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geology, and in 1965 began his professional career as a petroleum geologist. During the next two decades a gypsy life led him and his family to residences in Oklahoma, Texas, California, Guatemala, and Ecuador. A career change in 1986 brought him to Albuquerque, New Mexico. For the next 17 years his work as a geologist included months-long stints in Italy and Belize, a semester as a student high-school teacher, and eventually as a contractor to Sandia National Laboratories as part of a team characterizing the geology of Kirtland Air Force Base. After semi-retirement in 2003 he worked for five years as a geological consultant until final retirement in 2008 when he began writing. This is his third book, after Old Forty-Four: A Historical and Geological Excursion Over New Mexico's Old Route 44 and Camps and Campsites of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in New Mexico 1933-1942, both from Sunstone Press.