TY - BOOK ID - 78644648 TI - The mountains that remade America PY - 2017 SN - 0520964233 9780520964235 9780520289642 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Geology KW - Human geography KW - Mountains KW - Gold mines and mining KW - Gold discoveries KW - Gold extraction (Mining) KW - Gold fields KW - Gold mining KW - Gold rush KW - Gold rushes KW - Goldfields KW - Goldmining KW - Goldrush KW - Goldrushes KW - Sites, Gold mining KW - Mines and mineral resources KW - Hills KW - Mountain peaks KW - Mountain ranges KW - Mountain ridges KW - Mounts (Mountains) KW - Orography KW - Orology KW - Peaks KW - Pinnacles KW - Ranges, Mountain KW - Ridges, Mountain KW - Summits (Mountains) KW - Uplands KW - Anthropo-geography KW - Anthropogeography KW - Geographical distribution of humans KW - Social geography KW - Anthropology KW - Geography KW - Human ecology KW - Geognosy KW - Geoscience KW - Earth sciences KW - Natural history KW - History. KW - Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierra Nevada Mountains (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierra Nevada Range (Calif. and Nev.) KW - Sierras (Calif. and Nev.) KW - american landscape. KW - american west. KW - backpacker. KW - cartographer. KW - contemporary society. KW - geographer. KW - geography. KW - geological science. KW - geologist. KW - geology. KW - hiker. KW - historical geology. KW - mountain range. KW - natural science. KW - outdoorsman. KW - sierra nevada mountains. KW - travel guide. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78644648 AB - From ski towns to national parks, fresh fruit to environmental lawsuits, the Sierra Nevada has changed the way Americans live. Whether and where there was gold to be mined redefined land, mineral, and water laws. Where rain falls (and where it doesn't) determines whose fruit grows on trees and whose appears on slot machines. All this emerges from the geology of the range and how it changed history, and in so doing, changed the country. The Mountains That Remade America combines geology with history to show how the particular forces and conditions that created the Sierra Nevada have effected broad outcomes and influenced daily life in the United States in the past and how they continue to do so today. Drawing connections between events in historical geology and contemporary society, Craig H. Jones makes geological science accessible and shows the vast impact this mountain range has had on the American West. ER -