Ducktown smoke : the fight over one of the south's greatest environmental disasters / Duncan Maysilles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maysilles, Duncan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Copper mines and mining--Environmental aspects--Tennessee--Ducktown Region.

Copper mines and mining.

Liability for environmental damages--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Liability for environmental damages.

Liability for environmental damages--Tennessee--Ducktown Region.

Georgia--Trials, litigation, etc.

Georgia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is hard to make a desert in a place that receives sixty inches of rain each year. But after decades of copper mining, all that remained of the old hardwood forests in the Ducktown Mining District of the southern Appalachian Mountains was a fifty-square mile barren expanse of heavily gullied red hills--a landscape created by sulfur dioxide smoke from copper smelting and destructive logging practices. In Ducktown Smoke, Duncan Maysilles examines this environmental disaster, one of the worst the South has experienced, and its impact on environmental law and Appalachian conservation.

Contents:

Introduction : the view from the mountain

The setting, the Cherokees, and the first era of Ducktown mining, 1843-1878

The revival of Ducktown mining and the first smoke suits, 1890-1903

The farmers and the copper companies wage battle in the Tennessee courts

Georgia enters the fray

The Ducktown desert and Georgia's first smoke suit

Will Shippen, forestry, and Georgia's second smoke suit, 1905-1907

Attorney general Hart, the National Farmers Union, and the search for a remedy, 1907-1910

The smoke injunction and the great war, 1914-1918

Power dams, whitewater rafting, and the reclamation of the Ducktown desert, 1916-2010

Epilogue : the view from the mountain.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908851-5-9

979-88-9313-421-6

1-4696-0315-2

0-8078-7793-X

OCLC:

731646880