Colorado

Résumé du livre

Whiteside divides Colorado athletics into three categories to show how they reflected and affected their environment. 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. Whiteside also examines the politics behind certain athletic events in Colorado's history, including the state's rejection of the 1976 Winter Olympics.