Western Wanderings and Summer Saunterings Through, Picturesque Colorado (Classic Reprint)
Western Wanderings and Summer Saunterings Through, Picturesque Colorado (Classic Reprint)

Author: Emma Abbott Gage

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781332211197

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Excerpt from Western Wanderings and Summer Saunterings Through, Picturesque Colorado One day, last September, while making a three-days' trip over the picturesque Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, from Denver to Grand Junction, I casually mentioned to a fellow-traveler that I had been writing letters, descriptive of my western trip, to an eastern newspaper. He made the semi-sarcastic rejoinder, "Then I suppose you are going to write a book," and quoted the oft-heard expression "Oh! that mine enemy would write a book." I said, "No, I had no thought nor intention of ever inflicting such a burden upon my adversary or my friend;" and at that time I had not. After "Western Wanderings" of four months, I returned to my home in the East, and found that my letters had met with popular favor. This volume is a compilation of those letters, and is printed only at the earnest solicitation of over-kind friends, who assured me the letters received much commendation, and that their compilation in book-form would be very acceptable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Author: State Library of Massachusetts

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Published: 1900

Total Pages: 712

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The Slums of Aspen
The Slums of Aspen

Author: Lisa Sun-Hee Park

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2013-07-22

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1479834769

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Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological Association How the elite ski resort reshaped the socio-economic and demographic landscape in pursuit of profit and pleasure Environmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in Colorado, under the guise of environmental protection, passed a resolution limiting immigration, bolstering the privilege of the wealthy and scapegoating Latin American newcomers for the area’s current and future ecological problems. This might have escaped attention save for the fact that this wasn’t some rinky-dink backwater. It was Aspen, Colorado, playground of the rich and famous and the West’s most elite ski town. Tracking the lives of immigrant laborers through several years of exhaustive fieldwork and archival digging, The Slums of Aspen tells a story that brings together some of the most pressing social problems of the day: environmental crises, immigration, and social inequality. Park and Pellow demonstrate how these issues are intertwined in the everyday experiences of people who work and live in this wealthy tourist community. Offering a new understanding of a little known class of the super-elite, of low-wage immigrants (mostly from Latin America) who have become the foundation for service and leisure in this famous resort, and of the recent history of the ski industry, Park and Pellow expose the ways in which Colorado boosters have reshaped the landscape and altered ecosystems in pursuit of profit and pleasure. Of even greater urgency, they frame how environmental degradation and immigration reform have become inextricably linked in many regions of the American West, a dynamic that interferes with the efforts of valorous environmental causes, often turning away from conservation and toward insidious racial privilege.