| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.3

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Canada and the United States

Kathleen A. Brosnan. Uniting Mountain and Plain: Cities, Law, and Environmental Change along the Front Range. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 2002. Pp. xii, 276. $29.95.

This excellent book focuses on Denver, Colorado Springs, and Pueblo entrepreneurs and how they worked to control hinterlands, maintain local control over outside investment dollars, regulate social and economic enterprise, and control their physical world. In less than fifty years, Denver emerged, like Chicago, as nature's metropolis controlling transportation, finance, agriculture, smelting, manufacturing, and trade. Tourism defined Colorado Springs, although by 1986 the city was also a financial center and corporate home to many enterprises. Pueblo was a central marketplace for regional interests but became an industrial city in 1882 when Colorado Coal and Iron opened its doors. In the process of economic institution building for personal and municipal empire, few gave the environmental degradation consideration. Fewer still protested the social degradation heaped upon the industrial and mine workers. . . .

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