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| Title: | America's Switzerland
: Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years |
| Author: | James H Pickering |
| ISBN: | 0870818066 : 9780870818066 |
| Illustrations: | 72 b/w photos & 8 maps |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 457 |
| Weight: | .768 Kg. |
| Published: | University Press of Colorado - August 2005 |
| List Price: | 19.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Local history: Western & Pacific Coast states |
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.
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.
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; Publicising 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, 1919-1921; 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 Way Years ... and After; Index.
