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Colorado: A Sports History
Abstract
Whiteside uses athletics as a historical lens to view the people, culture, business, and politics of Colorado from its original American Indian occupants to the Broncos' Super Bowl victories. This unique new volume demonstrates how sports history can illuminate the business, politics, class, race, gender, mores, and values of a society. In pre-industrial Colorado, sports and games in Indian villages and early mining towns were shaped by work, community life, and even religion. As leisure time increased for many in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, sport evolved into a more popular recreational activity.The progression of the twentieth century has changed many sports from small-town pastimes into profitable businesses, as exemplified by the growth of the recreational industry and by college football's transformation from a young gentleman's game into a multimillion-dollar enterprise. "Colorado: A Sports History" is enhanced with a fine selection of historical photographs depicting Colorado sports and their participants.
... Ironically, this representation of women in Flagstaff is ahistorical. Among the many early skiers in Flagstaff, the only ones to 59 Coconino Sun, 10 March 1939, 22 November 1958Daily Sun, 28 January 1979;William P. Brown, Phoenix to Mack Forrester, Flagstaff, 25 February 1964, Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce Records (1871-1999, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, Series 2, Box 5, Folder 22; Future citations will refer to this collection as FCC; Native American imagery and ski areas is addressed in Coleman, "The Unbearable Whiteness of Skiing," 605-610. The amateur film also offers a portrayal of the female skier as a sex object. ...
... Local opposition and national legislation forged 67 Gomez, 162. 68 J.W. to Jack (Flagstaff), 20 March, 1974, in Flagstaff Chamber of Commerce Records (1871-1999, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University, Series 4, Box 1, Folder 10. boundaries for winter recreation in Flagstaff. This proved to be the last attempt to expand the Snow Bowl beyond its regional reach. ...
"May 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 119-124) and abstract. Thesis (M.A.) -- Northern Arizona University, 2007.
In 1970 the Nixon Administration bribed members of the International Olympic Committee in an effort to bring the 1976 summer games to Los Angeles. These actions injected Cold War issues into the process of selecting Olympic host cities. This effort initiated a political confrontation with the Soviet Union, since Moscow was another of the candidate cities. Although weak and vulnerable to political assaults, the International Olympic movement's decentralized organizational nature made it difficult for the Nixon White House to bring the Olympics to Los Angeles. The administration learned from this failure and was more successful in offering more limited support to efforts to host the 1980 Winter Olympics.
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