Dedicated to John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Grand Cañon, the book travels from Pike’s Peak through Colorado and the Southwest to the Pacific. Whiting describes the Bright Angel Trail, mountain resorts and irrigated towns such as temperance Greeley, where no saloon was allowed, mixing scenery with history and civic boosterism.
An early-twentieth-century portrait of the West just as rail travel and tourism were opening it to visitors. Download the free EPUB.