America's Switzerland

Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

AvJames H. Pickering

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

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Americas Switzerland, a companion volume to This Blue Hollow, is the first comprehensive history of Rocky Mountain National Park and its neighboring town, Estes Park, during the decades when travel became a middle-class rite of summer. Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources and extensive archival research, James H. Pickering reveals how the evolution of tourism and Americas fascination with the western experience shaped the park and town from 1903 to 1945.Americas Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to historical literature, on how Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Parkthe most visited national park west of the Mississippi developed to welcome ever-growing crowds. Pickering profiles the individuals behind the development and details the challenges park and town confronted during decades that included two world wars and the Great Depression.

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Utgivningsdatum:2005-08-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 31 mm
Vikt:775 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:472
Förlag:University Press of Colorado
ISBN:9780870818066

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Lokalhistoria och kulturhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi

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James H. Pickering, a summer resident of Estes Park, is a professor of English at the University of Houston, where he has also served as dean, provost, and president. He has written or edited seventeen books on nineteenth- and early twentieth- century Colorado history.

Innehållsförteckning

Contents; List of Figures00; Introduction00; Chapter 1.Estes Park in 1915-New Beginnings00; Chapter 2.The Growth of "the Village"00; Chapter 3.F. O. Stanley and the Development of Estes Park00; Chapter 4.Building a Community00; Chapter 5.Rocky Mountain National Park: The First Years00; Chapter 6.Publicizing Park and Town: The "Eve of Estes" and; 00 Winter Sports; Chapter 7.The Transportation Controversy: Rocky Mountain; 00 National Park, 1919-1921; Chapter 8.Rocky Mountain National Park: The Toll Years,; 00 1921-1929; Chapter 9.Growth and Maturity: Estes Park in the 1920s00; Chapter 10.Hard Times Come to Colorado: Estes Park in the 1930s00; Chapter 11.The Years After Roger Toll: Rocky Mountain Park,; 00 1929-1941; Chapter 12.Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: The; 00 War Years ... and After; Notes00; Selected Bibliography00; Index00

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