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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646420640
• ISBN13: 9781646420643
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"