Research Catalog

Title

Creating Colorado : the making of a western American landscape, 1860-1940 / William Wyckoff.

Author

Wyckoff, William.

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

xiv, 336 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

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."--Jacket.

Subject

• Geschichte 1860-1940
• To 1950
• Landscapes > Colorado > History
• Human geography > Colorado
• Colorado > Historical geography
• Colorado > History > To 1876
• Colorado > History > 1876-1950

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-328) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Colorado: The Geographer's View -- 2. Pre-1860 Geographies -- 3. Mountain Geographies, 1860-1920 -- 4. Piedmont Heartland, 1860-1920 -- 5. Hinterlands: Eastern Plains, 1860-1920 -- 6. The Southern Periphery, 1860-1920 -- 7. The Western Slope, 1860-1920 -- 8. Geographies in Transition: Colorado, 1920-1940.

ISBN

0300071183 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98035056^

OCLC

• 39539134
• SCSB-10126655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library