Diana L. Di Stefano is assistant professor of history at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks.
Acknowledgments
Map of Avalanche Country Study Areas
Introduction: Arrival in Avalanche Country
1. Survival Strategies: 1820- 1860
2. Mountain Miners, Skiing Mailmen, and Itinerant Preachers: 1850-1895
3. Industrial Mining and Risk
4. Railway Workers and Mountain Towns: 1870-1910
5. Who's to Blame?
6. Disaster in the Cascades
7. Topping v. Great Northern Railway Company
8. Departure from Avalanche Country
Notes
Bibliography
Index