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Colorado goes to the fair: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

By Smith , Mark A , Duane A.;Vendl , Karen A.;Vendl

Book information

Publisher
University Press of Colorado;University of New Mexico Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780826350411, 0826350410, 9780826350428, 0826350429
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (23691449 bytes)
Pages
x, 108 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
artisticetc.);History;Nonfiction;Biography;Government publExhibitions--Social aspects--Colorado--History--19

Description

Preface: You must see this fair -- Prologue: Metropolis of the West -- The fair comes to Chicago -- Come, come, come to the fair : World's Columbian Exposition -- Surprise to the world -- Not matter, but mind; not things, but men -- Temptations galore -- Coloradans go to the fair : their experiences and opinions -- Epilogue: The glory and the reality -- Appendix: Colorado exhibits receiving awards.;"... The authors trace the glory of the World's Fair and the impact it would have on Colorado, where Gilded Age excess clashed with the enthusiasm of westward expansion"--From publisher description.

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