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

"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 sou...

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Author / Creator: Pickering, James H.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Language notes:English.
Imprint: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, ©2005.
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Access:Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time;
Online Access:Click here for full text at JSTOR
Table of 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.