In this Book
- America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: University Press of Colorado
summary
America's 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 America's fascination with the "western experience" shaped the park and town from 1903 to 1945. America's Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to historical literature, on how Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park - the 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.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- 2: The Growth of “the Village”
- pp. 23-52
- 4: Building a Community
- pp. 89-118
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 431-436
Additional Information
ISBN
9780870818622
Related ISBN(s)
9780870818066, 9781646420643
MARC Record
OCLC
76823074
Pages
472
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No