Creating Colorado: the making of a Western American landscape ; 1860 - 1940

"Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts - these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution...

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Main Author: Wyckoff, William (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven [u.a.] Yale Univ. Press 1999
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Summary:"Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts - these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a larger America and showing that Colorado has exemplified the unfolding of a complex western environment."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XIV, 336 S Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0300071183

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