[PDF.74kt] From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940

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

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 | #3188450 in Books |  Univ of Massachusetts Pr |  1996-08-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.66 x6.09l,.90 | File type: PDF | 248 pages

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|| |"A landmark study of American skiing that integrates the facts of the sport's history with the social and economic environment in which it developed. This richly illustrated narrative is comprehensive in scope and as historically accurate as it is readable."â€

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 communities in the Sierra and Rocky mountains used skis for many practical reasons, including mail and supply delivery, hunting, and railroad repair. In some towns skis were so common that, according to one California n...

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