Biography Of A Small Mountain

by Donna Ashworth

Overview

Flagstaff, Arizona, may seem like a small town at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks, but it has a rich and exciting history. Explorers, pioneers, settlers, scientists, fire lookouts, and businessmen have passed through, leaving their names to be found on landmarks, buildings, and mountains. Readers will find information about western water rights, how one man, Gus Pearson, helped to bring back the Ponderosa forest around Flagstaff after it had been clear cut, and how forest fires have shaped the history of the West. This is an extensively researched account of Flagstaff from 5,860,000 BCE to 1986. People who want more from their books of history than just names and dates will find the people who founded and built Flagstaff live again. This is the history of the West touched at one illuminating point.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150693777
Publisher:	Small Mountain Books
Publication date:	10/22/2014
Series:	Small Mountain Quartet , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	998,566
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

Donna Ashworth, who graduated from Arizona State University with a Master's degree in history, is an Arizona native who worked as the Woody Mountain fire lookout for 18 years. Her interest in the history of her tower, her mountain, and Flagstaff led her to write four books about the people who created this vibrant and interesting town.

Editorial Reviews

Biography of a Small Mountain starts with the mountain and ends with the mountain. In between is the exciting and wonderful story of the people and the land that fill out the framework of the community in transition, with its conflicts and dichotomies, which have come to illuminate that experience of a small mountain.

Sharlot Hall Museum - Mac Harris

The reader will find this is a remarkable book for its wealth of history, factual information, and insight into why conditions in our forest are what they are today. It is presented in a warm and understanding way with many lovely digressions that make very enjoyable reading and that would surely have been stricken as irrelevant if the manuscript had been edited by a professional historian.

book foreword - Henry Giclas

Here's a piece of local history that should please readers whether their interest is history or nature. Ashworth, working the fire lookout on Woody Mountain southwest of Flagstaff, became fascinated with its past. Years of careful research resulted in a fine, hefty book with lots of historical photos and plenty of detail. All southwestern collections should own it.

Coconino Cattle Company - Duane Miller