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 fascinating 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.
Wyckoff discusses how nature, capitalism, a growing federal
political presence, and national cultural influences came together
to produce a new human geography in Colorado. He explains the ways
in which the state's distinctive settlement geographies each took
on a special character that persists to the present. He leads the
reader through the transformation of the state from wilderness to a
distinct region capable of accommodating the diverse needs of
ranchers, miners, merchants, farmers, and city dwellers. And he
describes how a state created out of cartographic necessity has
been given uniqueness and meaning by the people who live there.
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