Benton MacKaye : conservationist, planner, and creator of the Appalachian Trail / Larry Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Larry, 1950-

Series:

Creating the North American landscape

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

MacKaye, Benton, 1879-1975.

MacKaye, Benton.

Conservationists--United States--Biography.

Conservationists.

Regional planners.

United States.

Regional planners--United States--Biography.

Appalachian Trail--History.

Appalachian Trail.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 452 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2002]

Summary:

Those who think they know what planner/forester Benton MacKaye had in mind in 1921 when he proposed "an Appalachian trail" and in 1925 when he founded the Appalachian Trail Conference need to read this first biography of the man who went on to help found The Wilderness Society. Almost two decades of thorough research went into this readable, revealing volume.

Contents:

Introduction: "Expedition 9" 1

1. The MacKaye Inheritance, 1879-1896 10

2. From Harvard Yard to the "Primaevial Forest," 1896-1903 29

3. The Education of a Progressive Forester, 1903-1911 47

4. Raising Hell, 1911-1915 70

5. Reclaiming America's Wild Lands for Work and Play, 1915-1916 87

6. Employment and Natural Resources, 1917-1919 102

7. Turning Point, 1919-1921 124

8. First Steps along the Appalachian Trail, 1921-1923 143

9. The Regional Planning Association of America and the Appalachian Trail Conference, 1923-1925 169

10. The New Exploration, 1925-1928 190

11. Trailwork and the "Townless Highway," 1928-1931 211

12. "RP = TH + AT + HT," a Formula for the New Deal, 1931-1933 228

13. The Tennessee Valley Authority, 1934-1936 248

14. The Wilderness Society, 1934-1936 267

15. "Watershed Democracy," 1936-1945 285

16. Wilderness in a Changing World, 1937-1950 309

17. "Geotechnics of North America," 1944-1972 328

18. Linking Action with Prophecy, 1953-1975 346

Epilogue: A "Planetary Feeling" 367

Appendix "An Appalachian Trail," / Benton MacKaye 371.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0801869021

OCLC:

48559485