Contains interviews of civilian conservation corp (ccc) veterans who served in the Rim Country, their stories and photographs of Rim Country camps and workers, and such emphemera as camp newspapers. This work talks about the human face of Arizona's ccc, the men's experiences, their work, and their lasting impact.

Moore interviewed a number of ccc veterans who served in the Rim Country, and their stories are part of this book. So too are photographs - many of them from veterans' personal collections - of Rim Country camps and workers, and such emphemera as camp newspapers. This is an engrossing account of several thousand young men who came to Arizona to escape the misery of the Great Depression, whose work in the woods changed the state, and who in the process were themselves changed. Here is the human face of Arizona's ccc, the men's experiences, their work, and their lasting impact on the forests of the Rim Country.