{"product_id":"high-country-summers-melanie-shellenbarger-9780816529582","title":"High Country Summers: The Early Second Homes of Colorado, 1880-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Country Summers \u003c\/i\u003econsiders the emergence of the \"summer home\" in Colorado's 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 Colorado's 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShellenbarger focuses on four areas along the Front Range: Rocky Mountain National Park and its easterly gateway town, Estes Park; \"recreation residences\" in lands managed by the US Forest Service; Lincoln Hills, one of only a few African-American summer home resorts in the United States; and the foothills west of Denver that drew Front Range urbanites, including Denver's social elite. From cottages to manor houses, the summer dwellings she examines were home to governors and government clerks; extended families and single women; business magnates and Methodist ministers; African-American building contractors and innkeepers; shop owners and tradespeople. By returning annually, Shellenbarger shows, they created communities characterized by distinctive forms of kinship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHigh Country Summers \u003c\/i\u003egoes beyond history and architecture to examine the importance of these early summer homes as meaningful sanctuaries in the lives of their owners and residents. These homes, which embody both the dwelling (the house itself) and dwelling (the act of summering there), resonate across time and place, harkening back to ancient villas and forward to the present day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melanie Shellenbarger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816529582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816529582\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Colorado Book Award - Finalist","brand":"Melanie Shellenbarger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447790121215,"sku":"9780816529582","price":57.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_27218dc1-7d05-4c45-89c3-fd351d940ab8.jpg?v=1777234832","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/high-country-summers-melanie-shellenbarger-9780816529582","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}