| America's Switzerland - Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years
(2005)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Estes Park (Colo.) - History; Rocky Mountain National Park (Colo.) - History |
| Publication Date |
8/15/2005 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.4
x
6.0
mm)
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| Publisher |
University Press of Colorado |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Description |
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 years when travel became a middle-class rite of summer and the park and town developed quickly, from 1903 to 1945.
America's Switzerland provides extensive information, much of it new to historical literature, on how Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park - the most visited national park west of the Mississippi - developed to welcome ever-growing crowds. Pickering profiles the individuals behind the development and details the challenges park and town confronted during decades that included two world wars and the Great Depression. |
| Personal Details |
| Purchase Price |
$14.95 |
| Acquire Date |
8/1/2010 |
| Condition |
Fine/Fine |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
F782.L2 .P53 2005 |
| Dewey |
978.8/68032 |
| ISBN |
9780870818066 |
| Edition |
[1st ed.] |
| Cover Price |
$32.95 |
| No. of Pages |
480 |
| First Edition |
Yes |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
| This volume of Pickering's history of Estes Park covers the period from the opening of RMNP to World War II. Chapters more or less alternate between the Park and the village. We learn about the development of the highways - South St. Vrain, North St. Vrain, and Big Thompson highways to Estes and Fall River Road and Trail Ridge Road in the Park - and the big water projects - Alva Adams tunnel and the creation of Lake Estes. We also learn of the transition of area leadership from the "founders" (Sprague, Mills, Stanley, etc) to the next generation. |
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