Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country

Title Page, Frontispiece, Copyright, Dedication

Weyerhaeuser environmental Books William Cronon, Editor Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books explore human relationships with natural environments in all their variety and complexity. They seek to cast new light on the ways that natural systems affect human communities , the ways that people affect the environments of which they are a part, and the ways that different cultural conceptions of nature profoundly shape our sense of the world around us. A complete list of the books in the series appears at the end of this book. university of Washington Press Seattle and London Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country William PhilPott Foreword by William Cronon VACATIONLAND is published with the assistance of a grant from the Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Endowment, established by the Weyerhaeuser Company Foundation, members of the Weyerhaeuser family, and Janet and Jack Creighton. frontisPiece: Cover of the Colorado state “lure book," published by the state's Division of Commerce and Development, ca. 1964. Courtesy Colorado Tourism Office.© 2013 by the University of Washington Press Printed and bound in the United States of America Composed in Sorts Mill Goudy, courtesy of the League of Moveable Type Display types set in League Gothic, courtesy of the League of Moveable Type, and Mission Script, courtesy of the Lost Type Co-op 17 16 15 14 13 13 5 4 3 2 1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. University of Washington Press Po Box 50096, seattle, Wa 98145, usa www.washington.edu/uwpress Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Philpott, William, 1970– Vacationland : tourism and environment in the Colorado high country / William Philpott; foreword by William Cronon. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-295-99273-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Tourism—Colorado—History. 2. Mountain life—Colorado—History. 3. Colorado—Economic conditions. 4. Colorado—Environmental conditions. 5. Colorado—Description and Travel. i. Title. g155.u6P47 2013 338.4´79788—dc23 2012050749 The paper used in this publication is acid-free and meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi Z39.48-1984.∞ For Mom, Dad, and Kath Shelby, Carly, and Peter and in memory of Sylvia and Lloyd Hegeman Lois and Ivan Philpott ...