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Author Philpott, William, 1970-

Title Vacationland : tourism and environment in the Colorado High Country / William Philpott ; foreword by William Cronon
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 495 pages)
Series Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books
Weyerhaeuser environmental book.
Contents Foreword / William Cronon -- Introduction : Seeing Like a Tourist -- Selling the Scene -- The Roads Nature Made? -- Our Big Backyard -- Blueprints for Action -- The John Denver Tenor -- Conclusion : How Tourism Took Place
Summary Peopled with colorful characters, richly evocative of the Rocky Mountain landscape, this book asks readers 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 408-450) and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Tourism -- Colorado -- History
Mountain life -- Colorado -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Service.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Ecology
Economic history
Mountain life
Tourism
Travel
SUBJECT Colorado -- Economic conditions
Colorado -- Environmental conditions
Colorado -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85028663
Subject Colorado
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021692736
ISBN 9780295804613
0295804610