Chasing the Dream, Swandyke, Colorado from Boom to Bust to Dust
Author : Sandra Mather
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780985358730
Author : Sandra Mather
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780985358730
Author : Kevin Singel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,86 MB
Release : 2018-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781719553469
Travel guide book inspired by the gold prospecting origin of Colorado. Includes touring information on all the major towns founded as gold mining camps as well as summaries of each town's origin story. Includes reviews and recommendations on historic districts to visit, mines to tour, driving tours of ghost towns and places to gold pan. Includes information on 16 historic districts, 31 museums, 18 mines, 186 gold panning sites across the state of Colorado. Thoroughly researched to confirm public access to the panning sites (no private property or areas subject to mining claim has been included - unlike other books.)Written by a long-time Colorado resident and gold prospector. Based on years of research and field work.Get your share of the gold by prospecting for it in historic, urban, and remote locations across the gold districts of Colorado.
Author : Richard Wightman Fox
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1993-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226259543
"We are in the midst of a dramatic shift in sensibility, and 'cultural' history is the rubric under which a massive doubting and refiguring of our most cherished historical assumptions is being conducted. Many historians are coming to suspect that the idea of culture has the power to restore order to the study of the past. Whatever its potency as an organizing theme, there is no doubt about the power of the term 'culture' to evoke and stand for the depth of the re-examination not taking place. At a time of deep intellectual disarray, 'culture' offers a provisional, nominalist version of coherence: whatever the fragmentation of knowledge, however centrifugal the spinning of the scholarly wheel, 'culture'—which (even etymologically) conveys a sense of safe nurture, warm growth, budding or ever-present wholeness—will shelter us. The PC buttons on historians' chests today stand not for 'politically correct' but 'positively cultural.'—from the Introduction More and more scholars are turning to cultural history in order to make sense of the American past. This volume brings together nine original essays by some leading practitioners in the field. The essays aim to exhibit the promise of a cultural approach to understanding the range of American experiences from the seventeenth century to the present. Expanding on the editors' pathbreaking The Culture of Consumption, the contributors to this volume argue for a cultural history that attends closely to language and textuality without losing sight of broad configurations of power that social and political history at its best has always stressed. The authors here freshly examine crucial topics in both private and public life. Taken together, the essays shed new light on the power of culture in the lives of Americans past and present.
Author : Martyn J. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134888139
First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : E. John B. Allen
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 1996-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781558490475
This text examines the history of skiing in America, from its utilitarian origins to its transformation into a purely recreational activity. It integrates the history of skiing in the context of cultural, social and economic developments.
Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521313971
Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts the author takes the reader to the saloons, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where American industrial workers spent their leisure hours, to explore the nature of working-class culture and class relations during this era.
Author : John Jerome
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,83 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Biography of Dick Durrance, a man who played a major role in the development of the ski resorts at Sun Valley, Alta and Aspen, and whose involvement with skiing spans the history of the sport in America. Includes many photographs. (LAG).
Author : Otto Lang
Publisher : Globe Pequot Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Otto Lang had a summer home near St. Ignatius and was a ski pioneer, who directed the famed Sun Valley Ski School. The legendary skier also was a film director.
Author : Frank L. Wentworth
Publisher : Sundance Publications, Limited
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 19,38 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Aspen (Colo.)
ISBN :
Author : John M. Findlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 1993-09-22
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520084357
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.