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title:From Skisport to Skiing : One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
author:Allen, E. John B.
publisher:University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin:0870238442
print isbn13:9780870238444
ebook isbn13:9780585083025
language:English
subjectSkis and skiing--United States--History.
publication date:1993
lcc:GV854.4.A4 1993eb
ddc:796.93/0973
subject:Skis and skiing--United States--History.
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From Skisport to Skiing
One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 18401940
E. John B. Allen
The University of Massachusetts Press
AMHERST
Page iv
Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All right reserved
LC 93-9224
ISBN 0-87023-844-2
Designed by James F. Brisson
Set in Galliard Roman
Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Allen, E. John B., 1933
From skisport to skiing : one hundred years of an
American sport, 18401940 / E. John B. Allen.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87023-844-2 (alk. paper)
1. Skis and skiingUnited StatesHistory. I. Title.
GV854.4.A4 1993
917.3dc20Picture 2Picture 3Picture 4Picture 593-9224
Picture 6Picture 7Picture 8Picture 9CIP
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
This book is published with the support and cooperation of the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface
xi
Part 1
The Skisport, 18401920
1/The Skisport: An Introduction
3
2/California Gold Rush Snow-Shoeing
13
Picture 10
Utilitarian Skiing
14
Picture 11
Mail Service
16
Picture 12
Recreational Skiing
20
Picture 13
Race Meetings
21
3/Utilitarian Skiing and Ludic Enthusiasms
29
Picture 14
Hunting
30
Picture 15
New England
32
Picture 16
The Northwest
33
Picture 17
The Rocky Mountains
34
Picture 18
Washington and Oregon
36
Picture 19
Mail Service
37
Picture 20
U.S. Military
39
Picture 21
Skis as Artifacts
40
Picture 22
Recreational Enthusiasms
44

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4/Foundation of the Skisport
47
Picture 23
Nansen and Idraet Influences
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