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From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940 Book

From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
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From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940, The first full-length study of skiing in the United States, this book traces the history of the sport from its utilitarian origins to its advent as a purely recreational and competitive activity. During the mid-1800s, inhabitants of frontier mining commun, From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
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  • From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
  • Written by author John B. Allen
  • Published by University of Massachusetts Press, 1993/09/30
  • The first full-length study of skiing in the United States, this book traces the history of the sport from its utilitarian origins to its advent as a purely recreational and competitive activity. During the mid-1800s, inhabitants of frontier mining commun
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Preface
Pt. 1 The Skisport 1840-1920
1 The Skisport: An Introduction 3
2 California Gold Rush Snow-Shoeing 13
3 Utilitarian Skiing and Ludic Enthusiasms 29
4 Foundation of the Skisport 47
5 Controlling the Skisport 63
6 The New Enthusiasts 75
Pt. 2 The Mechanization of Skiing, 1920-1940
7 Post-World War I: Prelude to Skiing 89
8 The Mechanization of Skiing 104
9 The Sport of Skiing 117
10 Western Idylls 135
11 The Economics of Pleasure 145
12 Epilogue: To the Future 171
Notes 175
Selected Bibliography 219
Index 227


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