To be enough just to put up a little window dressing in front. Now they had to take what the local newspaper called a tourists eye view of their own hometown to consider what kind of landscape and atmosphere would be needed to attract vacationers and to compete with other communities that were trying to do exactly the same thing. So in short, already with this very first stretch of i70 to be built up in the high country we can already see a hint of how largescale postwar Tourist Development was going to change peoples view of the land. The way people related to place and the ways they saw fit to take care of it. So ill dive into the story now sort of a condensed version of the story i tell in vacationland about how tourism came to be in this region. Really, making the high country seem like a great place for a vacation would mean fundamentally changing how most people thought of this region. If that sounds weird to you, because of the ways we think of this region now then keep in mind
In terms of blood, nearly 120,000 u. S. Troops paid with allies and another 20,000 were wounded. It was a dramatic dramatic conflict. To my second point, the media Lessons Learned after this conflict, its odd that this sort of idealism emerged, and this idealism trump sober pragmatism come and sort of a realistic assessment about the nature of man, the nature of the international system. We saw the league of nations form which tried to impose the domestic Structure International of domestic law internationally. We saw later in the 20s a aipac, 1928 which sought to outlaw war. Something, they could just outlaw. Within the United States, rather than sort of prepare for possibly there could be another major conflict, this is from a u. S. Army history, the war deparle urged congress to authorize the astonishment of permanent regular army, about a half a million, and threemonth the universal training system, and congress and the American People said no. Rather, not just meltdown, we tore do
I want to get started with that. It is a book that sean mentioned. I will be drawing material from it tonight. The history of Recreational Development in colorado after world war ii. Mostly focuses on 19421945 all stop how the southern rockies in a few decades went from a remote and a skewer backwater to one of the most heavily visited vacation destinations in the united states. One question we ask in the book is how did the country come to be a Vacation Land all stop much more broadly, the book is an effort to examine bigger issues. It goes way beyond the high country. Whennt to figure out how tourers and became such a big business in the decades after world war ii, and america began to seek out its landscape like colorado high country for leisure and personal fulfillment and pleasure, and when they got into the way these landscapes were being marketed. What implications did all of that have for america. Environment, nature. People want to consume recreational landscape of stop what c
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