America's Switzerland: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park, the Growth Years

by James H. Pickering

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870818066
• ISBN13: 9780870818066
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 457 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"