Conservation Corps
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Corps Reference - Books
2011 - Adirondack Civilian Conservation Corps Camps: History, Memories and Legacy of the CCC
by Marty Podskoch. (352 pages)2011 - Devil's Lake, Wisconsin and the Civilian Conservation Corps by Robert Moore. The History Press
2011 - Shaping th Park and Saving the Boys: The Civilian Conservation Corps at Grand Canyon by
Robert W. Audretsch. Self Published
2011 - New Deal, New Landscape: The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks by
Tara Mitchell Mielink. University of South Carolina Press ISBN-10: 1570039844 (201 pages)
2011 - Our Mark on This Land: A Guide to the Legacy of the Civilian Conseration Corps in America's Parks
by Ren and Helen Davis - The McDonald & Woodward Publishing Company, Granville, OH ISBN 978-1-935778-18-9
2010 - Giant City State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps by Kay Rippelmeyer
Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-10: 0809329212
2008 - Hard Work and a Good Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota by Barbara W. Sommer.
Minnesota Historical Society Press ISBN 13: 978-0-87351-612-9
2008 - Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American
Environmental Movement by Neil M. Maher Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-539241-8
2008 - Roaring River Heritage (Chapter 5, The Advent of the Civilian Conservation Corps) by Irene Horner
Litho Printers, Cassville, MO
2008 - With Picks, Shovels & Hope: The CCC and Its Legacy on the Colorado Plateau by Hilton & Green.
Mountain Publishing Company, Missoula, MT ISBN-13 978-0-87842-546-4 (288 pages)
2008 - The Civilian Conservation Corps of McCurtain County and Sub-Camps in Octavia, Nashoba and Hugo by
Jimm and Jackie Jacobs. Oklahoma Forest Teaching Center (272 pages)
2007 - That Magnificent Army of Youth and Peace: The Civilian Conservation Corps in North
Carolina, 1933-1942 by Harley E. Jolley. (167 pages)
North Carolina Office of Archives and History ISBN-10: 0865263299
2006 - At Work in Penn's Woods: The Civilian Conservation Corps in Pennsylvania by Joseph M. Speakman.
Penn State University Press ISBN 978-0-271-02876-7 (256 pages)
2006 - New Deal Days: The CCC at Mesa Verde by Ronald C. Brown and Duane A. Smith.
Durango Herald Small Press ISBN 1-887805-20-6 (103 pages)
2006 - The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona’s Rim Country: Working in the Woods by Robert J. Moore.
University of Nevada Press
2006 - The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada by Victoria Ford & Renee Corona Kolvet.
University of Nevada Press
2006 - My CCC Days by Frank C. Davis.
John F. Blair Publisher ISBN-10: 1933251239 (66 pages)
2004 - Civilian Conservation Corps: In and Around the Black Hills by Peggy Sanders.
Tempus Publishing, Inc. ISBN 0-7385-3264-9 L.C.C. no. 2004101468
2004 - The CCC Chronicles: Camp Newspapers of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942
By Alfred Emile Cornebise McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers
2002 - By the People, for the people: The work of the Civilian Conservation Corps in California
State Parks, 1933-1941 by Joseph H. Engbeck ISBN 0941925226 9780941925228 (154 Pages)
2001 - Gold Medal CCC Company 1538: A Documentary by Kathy Mays Smith.
ISBN-10 1563116421
2000 - Coming of Age in the Great Depression: The Civilian Conservation Corps Experience
in New Mexico 1933-1942 by Richard Melzer Yucca Tree ISBN 13:9781881325413
1999 - The African American Experience in the Civilian Conservation Corps by Olen Cole Jr.
University Press of Flordia ISBN: 0813016606 (192 pages)
1997 - The C.C.C. Camps in West Virginia: 1933-1942 by Milton Harr. (2nd Ed, 1997)
1997 - Civilian Conservation Corps (The Way We Remember It) by C. Nolte.
Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1563110067 (Stories from former CCCers)
1993 - Dusty Roads by Steve Canton.
The Charles B. McFadden Co., Inc., Winter Park, FL ISBN: 1-883114-01-2 (124 pages)
1991 - The Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Newspapers: A Guide Compiled by Marlys Rudeen
The Center for Research Libraries, Chicago, IL - 1991. ISBN 0-932486-37-1
1990 - In the Shadow of the Mountain: The Spirit of the CCC by Edwin G. Hill.
Washington State University Press ISBN-10: 0874220734 (208 Pages)
1990 - The Moral Equivalent of War? A Study of Non-Military Service in Nine Countries by Donald Eberly
Greenwood Press, Westport, CT - (240 pages)
(Canada, China, Costa Rica, Germany, Indonesia, Irael, Mexico, Nigeria and theUnited States)
1990 - Gratitude by William F. Buckley Jr.
Random House ISBN: 0679402055 (169 pages) (Promotes universal voluntary national service)
1989 - Looking Back by Darwood Drake. Adams Press, Chicago, IL
1989 - The Ace in the Hole: A Brief History of Company 818 of the Civilian Conservation Corps
by Louis Lester Purvis. Brentwood Christian Press, Columbus, GA (142 pages)
1989 - National Service: A Promise to Keep by Donald J. Eberly - Alden Books, NY - (247 pages)
1988 - A Call to Civic Service: National Service for Country and Community by Charles C. Moskos - McMillan (238 page)
1986 - History of th Trans-Canyon Telephone Line, Grand Canyon National Park by Teri A. Cleeland.
1986 - The Forest Service and the Civilian Conservation Corps: 1933-42 (FS-395)
U.S. Government Printing Office #1986-623 579/554 (219 pages) View On-Line
1985 - The United States Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930’s by Ernst A Hayden. (107 pages)
1984 - Home on the Range: Civilian Conservation Corps in the Kingman Area by Roman Malach.
Speed Print Headquarters, Kingman, AZ (48 pages)
1984 - The CCC: A Humanitarian Endeavor during the Great Depression by Howard L. Lang, M.D.
Vantage Press, New York, NY ISBN: 533-05751-5 (170 pages)
1982 - The Civilian Conservation Corps, Vol 1 - Foxfire - Winter 1982.
1982 - Forgotten Men: The Civilian Conservation Corps by Robert Allen Ermentrout.
Exposition Press, Smithtown, NY ISBN: 0-682-49805-X (102 pages)
1981 - Roosevelt’s Forest Army: A History of the Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942
By Perry H. Merrill. Northlight Studio Press, Inc., Barre, VT. ISBN: 09605806-0-3 (206 pages)
1981 - The History of the Youth Conservation Corps by Dr. David E. Nye.
U.S. Government Printing Office #1981-0 340-932/171 (97 pages)
1983 - Hobnail Boots and Khaki Suits by E. Kay Kiefer and Paul E. Fellows.
Adams Press, Chicago, IL ISBN: 0-9612228-2-4 (195 pages)
1980 - History of the Young Adult Conservation Corps by Jack McElroy.
U.S. Government Printing Office
1980 - The Tree Army: A Pictorial History of the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942 by Stan Cohen.
Pictorial Histories Publishing Company
1977 - The Woodpecker War by Gerald H. Reynolds. Beck Printing, Clearwater, FL. (116 pages)
1976 - CCC Boys Remember: A Pictorial History of the CCC by Glenn Howell.
Klocker Printery, Medford, OR
1976 - The Soil Soldiers: The Civilian Conservation Corps in the Great Depression by Leslie A. Lacy.
Chilton Book Company, Radnor, PA
1976 - The Job Corps: A Social Experiment that Works by Sar A. Levitan.
The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-10: 0801818044 (118 pages)
1975 - The New Deal: The State and Local Levels by John Braeman, Robert H. Bremner & David Brody
Ohio State University Press - 2006. (Vol II)
1967 - Job Corps: Dollars and Dropouts by Christopher Weeks.
Publisher: Little, Brown ASIN: B0007DEYW0 (241 pages)
1967 - The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study by John A. Salmond.
Duke University Press, Durham, NC L.C.C. card no. 66-30206 (240 pages) View On-Line
1944 - The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938 by Basil Rauch - Creative Age Press Inc., New York - 1944.
1942 - Saga of the C.C.C. by John D. Guthrie. American Forestry Association
1942 - Youth in the CCC by Kenneth Holland and Frank Ernest Hill. (263 pages)
1941 - My Brush Monkeys: An Army Officer's Story of the CCC by Albert W. Jernberg
Richard R. Smith, Publisher
1940 - Now They Are Men: The Story of the CCC by James J. McEntee.
National Home Library Foundation, Washington, DC
1940 - Time on Their Hands: A Report on Leisure, Recreation, and Young People by C.Gilbert Wrenn
and D.L. Hartley. (266 pages)
1939 - The Administration of the Civilian Conservation Corps by Charles Price Harper.
Clarksburg Publishing Co., Clarksburg, WV
1938 - My Life in th Civilian Conservation Corps by Mrion Shean.
1938 - Your CCC: A Handbook for Enrollees by Ray Hoyt. Happy Days Publishing Co.
1937 - CCC Forestry: ECW Enrollee Training by H.R. Kylie, G.H. Hieronymus and A.G. Hall.
U.S. Government Printing Office (334 pages)
1937 - Some Find a New Dawn by Maide O’Heeron. Burney Brothers Press, Aurora, MO (Novel)
1937 - This New America: The Spirit of the Civilian Conservation Corp by Alfred C. Oliver Jr. and Harold M. Dudley
Longmans Green and Co. - 1937.
1935 - Once in a Lifetime by Ned H. Dearborn. Charles Merrill, CO.
1935 - Park Structures and Facilities by the United States Department of Interior.
1935 - The School in the Camps: The Education Program of the Civilian Conservation Corps by Frank E. Hill.
J.J. Little and Ives Company, New York
1935 - We Can Take It: A Short History of the CCC by Ray Hoyt. American Book Company, New York, NY
1935 - Youth in the Depression by Kingsley Davis. University of Chicago Press
1934 - Youth Rebuilds by Ovid Butler. American Forestry Association, Washington, DC
19__ - The Civilian Conservation Corps Program in the United States by Nelson C. Brown.
U.S. Government Printing Office
More to come .... under construction ........
Civilian Conservation Corps 1934
Young Adult Conservation Corps 1978
Coconino Rural Environment Corps 2001
Southwest Conservation Corps 2008
Montana Conservation Corps 2010
Job Corps Conservation Center 1967
Wisconsin Conservation Corps 1988
