Sunset Ideas for Outdoor Family Fun in the West
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Family recreation
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Page : 112 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Family recreation
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Author : William Philpott
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 15,52 MB
Release : 2013-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0295804610
Winner of the Western Writers of America 2014 Spur Award for Best Western Nonfiction, Contemporary Mention the Colorado high country today and vacation imagery springs immediately to mind: mountain scenery, camping, hiking, skiing, and world-renowned resorts like Aspen and Vail. But not so long ago, the high country was isolated and little visited. Vacationland tells the story of the region's dramatic transformation in the decades after World War II, when a loose coalition of tourist boosters fashioned alluring images of nature in the high country and a multitude of local, state, and federal actors built the infrastructure for high-volume tourism: ski mountains, stocked trout streams, motels, resort villages, and highway improvements that culminated in an entirely new corridor through the Rockies, Interstate 70. Vacationland is more than just the tale of one tourist region. It is a case study of how the consumerism of the postwar years rearranged landscapes and revolutionized American environmental attitudes. Postwar tourists pioneered new ways of relating to nature, forging surprisingly strong personal connections to their landscapes of leisure and in many cases reinventing their lifestyles and identities to make vacationland their permanent home. They sparked not just a population boom in popular tourist destinations like Colorado but also a new kind of environmental politics, as they demanded protection for the aesthetic and recreational qualities of place that promoters had sold them. Those demands energized the American environmental movement-but also gave it blind spots that still plague it today. Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, Vacationland forces us to consider how profoundly tourism changed Colorado and America and to grapple with both the potential and the problems of our familiar ways of relating to environment, nature, and place.
Author : Sunset Books
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Built-in furniture
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Page : 1528 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 1960
Category : California
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Author : Sunset
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 24,93 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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Author : Emily Rachel Morgan
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Education
ISBN : 193695916X
Discusses the spinning of the Earth, the progress of day into night, and the reasons for the spectacular colors and shadows that accompany sunrise and sunset.
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Page : 2202 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 1961
Category : American literature
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Page : 706 pages
File Size : 25,24 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Union catalogs
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Elizabeth Genné
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Church camps
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 966 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Copyright
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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)