Uniting mountain & plain
Subtitle: cities, law, and environmental change along the front range
By: Kathleen A. Brosnan.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: City planning -- Colorado -- Case studies.; Denver (Colo.) -- History.; Colorado Springs (Colo.) -- History.; Pueblo (Colo.) -- History.; Denver (Colo.) -- Economic conditions.; Colorado Springs (Colo.) -- Economic conditions.; Pueblo (Colo.) -- Economic conditions.; Denver (Colo.) -- Environmental conditions.; Colorado Springs (Colo.) -- Environmental conditions.; Pueblo (Colo.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Uniting mountain and plain
Description: "By linking widely separated ecosystems in the urban-based economy of the Front Range, Brosnan notes, entrepreneurs created irrevocable environmental change and restructured the relations of the region's inhabitants with the land and with each other.

Hispanic and Native American people who had lived in Colorado since long before the gold rush found themselves marginalized or displaced, foreshadowing the subsequent surrender of regional industries to the Goulds, Guggenheims and Rockefellers by the early twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-270) and index.
Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Holding the purse strings : Denver emerges; title: Vanquishing the Indians : Denver clears the plains; title: Taming the desert : Denver turns to agriculture; title: Creating a valuable niche : Colorado Springs and the tourist trade; title: Forging steel : Pueblo's incomplete challenge; title: Mastering nature : reality and illusion.