Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Country (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
"William Philpott'sVacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High Countryis the best book yet published on an array of critical topics in Colorado history...What's more,Vacationlandis far and away the most illuminating book yet written on postwar Colorado. Philpott's research is exhaustive, his prose is elegant but crystal-clear, and his interpretations are almost uniformly persuasive.Vacationlandseems bound to earn vociferous praise from scholars. Yet this is also a book that merits widespread attention from general readers. If I were asked to recommend just one work to citizens or visitors seeking to orient themselves to the origins of the contemporary Colorado landscape, this would be it." -Thomas Andrews,Center for Colorado and the West, January 2014"The author utilizes a bevy of archival and public documents. Photographs, maps, charts, and a substantial bibliography support the book." -Choice, March 2014