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Old fences, new neighbors / Peter R. Decker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decker, Peter R., 1934-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ouray County (Colo.)--History.
- Ouray County (Colo.).
- Ouray County (Colo.)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Golden, Colo. : Fulcrum Pub., c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The residents of Ridgway, Colorado, who once numbered only a few hundred, now watch ski-toting tourists head for the Rockies and the new ""gentleman ranchers"" buy more and more land in the area. Once an outsider himself, the author takes a hard look at the pros and cons of change in the American West. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Contents:
- Beginnings
- Pioneer settlers
- Tough times in rough country
- The seasons of ranching
- Visitors and newcomers
- Community fragmentation
- A different town in a new West
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Tuscon : University of Arizona Press, c1998. With new foreword.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-46770-0
- 9786612467707
- 1-55591-845-X
- OCLC:
- 560586610
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