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The Rocky Mountain National Park Reader
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Description for The Rocky Mountain National Park Reader
Paperback. This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marks its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the events that loom large in park history are the underlying themes that connect the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 525.
Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that ""No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered."" This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marks its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the events that loom large in park history are the underlying themes that connect the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology.
Representative both in subject and approach, the selections reach back to Arapaho and pioneer times, before the park was established, and move forward to span its entire first century. The voices that speak ... Read more
Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that ""No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered."" This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marks its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the events that loom large in park history are the underlying themes that connect the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology.
Representative both in subject and approach, the selections reach back to Arapaho and pioneer times, before the park was established, and move forward to span its entire first century. The voices that speak ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Utah Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Salt Lake City, United States
ISBN
9781607814511
SKU
V9781607814511
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About
James H. Pickering is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Houston, USA, where he served as dean, provost, and president. He has written or edited 30 books on Estes Park, Colorado, and the American West. Since 2006 he has served as Historian Laureate of Estes Park. His book, Joe Mills of Estes Park (2013), was a finalist for ... Read more
Reviews for The Rocky Mountain National Park Reader
“A latter day Enos Mills, Jim Pickering has emerged as the foremost and most prolific historian-champion of Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. In this crackerjack anthology, Jim celebrates the park’s centennial with a rich selection of reflections from Arapaho Indians to current scientists studying the scary impact of climate change.” —Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel, the University of ... Read more