Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps

by Robert J. Moore

Book Overview

Thousands of young men embarked on the adventure of a lifetime when they joined the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.

Service at Wisconsin's popular state park offered notoriety absent at most camp assignments. While most of the CCC work around the country was in remote forests and farmlands, at Devil's Lake tourists could view CCC project activity each day, forging that labor into an essential part of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609492773
• ISBN13: 9781609492779
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: History Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"