The Eldgjá eruption in Iceland in the late 930s CE seems to have had tremendous repercussions. Only a few historical documents were written during the time in question.
These Boy Scout images, particularly focused on the 1919–1925 era, demonstrate that human labor and history permeated popular American nature ideology and hiking practices at that time.
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