Creating Colorado
Subtitle: the making of a western American landscape, 1860-1940
By: William Wyckoff.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
Subjects: Landscape -- Colorado -- History; Human geography -- Colorado; Colorado -- Historical geography; Colorado -- History -- To 1876; Colorado -- History -- 1876-1950
Description: 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 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-328) and index.