High Country Summers: The Early Second Homes of Colorado 1880-1940
High Country Summers: The Early Second Homes of Colorado 1880-1940
$55.00
Shellenbarger, Melanie. High Country Summers: The Early Second Homes of Colorado 1880-1940
Univ. of Arizona Press
Cl. 2012
Book ID: 93246
High Country Summers considers the emergence of the summer home in Colorados Rocky Mountains as both an architectural and a cultural phenomenon. It offers a welcome new perspective on an often-overlooked dwelling and lifestyle. Writing with affection and insight, Melanie Shellenbarger shows that Colorados early summer homes were not only enjoyed by the privileged and wealthy but crossed boundaries of class, race, and gender. They offered their inhabitants recreational and leisure experiences as well as opportunities for individual re-invention and they helped shape both the cultural landscapes of the American West and our ideas about it.
288 pp.
