High country summers
Subtitle: early second homes of Colorado, 1880-1940
By: Melanie Shellenbarger
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780816529582
Subjects: Architecture and society; Vacation homes; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a dwelling unlike any other; title: The lure of landscape: tourism in Colorado and the Mountain West; title: Villas of the vernacular: the Colorado second home in context; title: Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park; title: The national forests; title: Lincoln Hills; title: The Denver mountain parks and foothills; title: Conclusion: summer people, summer lives.