America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

Contents

Contents
List of Figures ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1. Estes Park in 1915—New Beginnings 7 Chapter 2. The Growth of “the Village” 23 Chapter 3. F. O. Stanley and the Development of Estes Park 53 Chapter 4. Building a Community 89 Chapter 5. Rocky Mountain National Park: The First Years 119 Chapter 6. Publicizing Park and Town: The “Eve of Estes” and Winter Sports 147 Chapter 7. The Transportation Controversy: Rocky Mountain National Park, 1919–1921 179 Chapter 8. Rocky Mountain National Park: The Toll Years, 1921–1929 209 Chapter 9. Growth and Maturity: Estes Park in the 1920s 253 Chapter 10. Hard Times Come to Colorado: Estes Park in the 1930s 281 Chapter 11. The Years After Roger Toll: Rocky Mountain Park, 1929–1941 327 Chapter 12. Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: The War Years . . . and After 363 Notes 387 Selected Bibliography 431 Index 437 vii ...