Above the Smoke: A Family Album of Pocahontas County Fire Towers
Above the Smoke relates oral histories from the men and women who worked the fire lookout towers in West Virginia's Pocahontas County, a wooded, mountainous community in the eastern Allegheny highlands, from 1915 to 1980. It examines the history, development, and key role of lookouts in suppressing and preventing forest fires. Written by Alderman, LeAnna, and Eleanor Mahoney. 128 pages of text, illustrations and pictures.