America's Switzerland : Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the growth years / James H. Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pickering, James H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.)--History.

Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.).

Estes Park (Colo.)--History.

Estes Park (Colo.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2005.

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."

Contents:

Estes Park in 1915-New Beginnings

The Growth of "the Village"

F.O. Stanley and the Development of Estes Park

Building a Community

Rocky Mountain National Park: The First Years

Publicizing Park and Town: The "Eve of Estes" and Winter Sports

The Transportation Controversy: Rocky Mountain National Park, 1919-1921

Rocky Mountain National Park: The Toll Years, 1921-1929

Growth and Maturity: Estes Park in the 1920s

Hard Times Come to Colorado: Estes Park in the 1930s

The Years After Roger Toll: Rocky Mountain Park, 1929-1941

Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park: The War Years ... and After.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780870818622

0870818627

OCLC:

76823074