| Book Review | Environmental History, 10.2

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Ski Style: Sport and Culture in the Rockies. By Annie Gilbert Coleman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. xii + 299 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.
Ski Style takes the story of skiing and examines its historical and cultural development as a major tourism industry. The book fits squarely within the latest literature by Hal Rothman, David Wrobel, Patrick Long, and Marguerite Shaffer while also making clear that skiing is an athletic pursuit that is sheer fun. General readers of western history will find an informed narrative while scholars will see another detailed examination of a western region that securely links economic and cultural developments.	1
Most people visiting Aspen or Breckenridge recognize that mining once shaped these towns while Steamboat Springs or Durango had strong ranching and farming influences. Yet, as Coleman lays out in her book, the switch from these extractive industries to the ski industry was neither immediate nor expected. Ski Style documents this transformation.	. . .

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