cities, law, and environmental change along the front range /
First Statement of Responsibility
Kathleen A. Brosnan.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Albuquerque :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of New Mexico Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
c2002.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 276 p. :
Other Physical Details
ill., maps ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
GENERAL NOTES
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Based on author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Chicago.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-270) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- Holding the purse strings : Denver emerges -- Vanquishing the Indians : Denver clears the plains -- Taming the desert : Denver turns to agriculture -- Creating a valuable niche : Colorado Springs and the tourist trade -- Forging steel : Pueblo's incomplete challenge -- Mastering nature : reality and illusion.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"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.