Class and Community in Frontier Colorado

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogan, Richard.

Series:

Studies in Historical Social Change Series

Studies in historical social change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colorado, EE. UU--Condiciones económicas.

Colorado, EE. UU.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 250 p.) : ilus. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University Press of Kansas 1990

Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spurred by the Gold Rush of 1859, settlers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities trekked to Colorado and began building towns. Existing accounts of their struggles and those of townbuilders throughout the American West focus on boomorbust economics, rampant boosterism, and bitter social conflicts. This, according to sociologist Richard Hogan, is not the whole story.In Class and Community in Frontier Colorado Hogan offers a fresh perspective on the frontier townbuilding experience. He argues that townbuilding in Colorado was not, as some have suggested, monopolized by local boosters or national business interests. It was, instead, a complex, dynamic process that reflected competition, cooperation, and conflict among various socioeconomic classes, and between local and national business interests as well.Hogan shows how farmers, ranchers, miners, tradesmen, merchants, bankers, entrepreneurs, land speculators, and eastern investors all vied for control in six of Colorado’s emerging urban centers: Denver, Central City, Greeley, Golden, Pueblo, and Canon City. Meticulously he traces the conflicts and coalitions that arose in and among these groups.By combining historical sociology with local history, Hogan’s study challenges current thinking about economic development, class structure and conflict, political partisanship, collective action, and social change in the American West.

Contents:

Intro

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations and Tables

Kansas Open Books Preface

Preface

1. Class Structure and Conflict in Frontier Colorado

Part I. Carnival Towns of Colorado

2. Denver: The Carnival Capital

3. Central City: Supply Town for the Mines

4. Greeley: Dry Farming and Utopian Capitalism

Part II. Caucus Towns of Colorado

5. Golden: Denver's Western Rival

6. Pueblo: Skins, Steers, and Steel Center

7. Cañon City: Gateway to the Southern Rockies

8. The Enduring Legacy of the American Frontier

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780700604623

0700604626

OCLC:

1227916105