The History of Skiing in the Upper Murray
Title | The History of Skiing in the Upper Murray PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Walter Mitchell |
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Pages | |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Skis and skiing |
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Early History of the Upper Murray
Title | Early History of the Upper Murray PDF eBook |
Author | C. A. Smithwick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 58 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN | 9780646424880 |
The History of Ski Jumping
Title | The History of Ski Jumping PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Ashburner |
Publisher | Quiller |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
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- The definitive history of world ski jumping, from the USA and Canada to Europe and Japan- Includes a wealth of unpublished photographs, archive material, anecdotes, and statistics- Written by a world authority on the sport
Skiing
Title | Skiing PDF eBook |
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Pages | 118 |
Release | 1992-03 |
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Skiing Heritage Journal
Title | Skiing Heritage Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 44 |
Release | 2010-06 |
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Skiing Heritage is a quarterly Journal of original, entertaining, and informative feature articles on skiing history. Published by the International Skiing History Association, its contents support ISHA's mission "to preserve skiing history and to increase awareness of the sport's heritage."
Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings
Title | Skiing Sun Valley: A History from Union Pacific to the Holdings PDF eBook |
Author | John W. Lundin |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467143936 |
Union Pacific Railroad's Averell Harriman had a bold vision to restore rail passenger traffic decimated by the Great Depression: create ski tourism in Idaho's remote Wood River Valley. A $1.5 million investment opened Sun Valley in December 1936 with a lavish lodge, luxury shopping, Austrian ski instructors and extensive backcountry skiing. Prestigious tournaments featured the world's best skiers. Chairlifts invented by Union Pacific engineers serviced skiers quickly and comfortably. Ski instructor and filmmaker Otto Lang recalled that seemingly overnight, it became "a magnet for the 'beautiful people,' a meeting place for movie stars and moguls, chairmen and captains of industry, Greek shipping tycoons, and peripatetic playboys--and playgirls--of the international social set." After World War II and Harriman's departure, Union Pacific's willingness to pay the $500,000 yearly subsidy waned. Bill Janss purchased it in 1964 and reimagined it as a year-round resort but lacked the capital for growth. Sinclair Oil owners Earl and Carol Holding acquired it in 1977, revitalizing it into a premier resort with international status. Award-winning ski historian John W. Lundin celebrates America's first destination ski resort using unpublished Union Pacific documents, oral histories, contemporaneous accounts and more than 150 historic images.
The Nowhere Place
Title | The Nowhere Place PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Dunlop |
Publisher | Wakefield Press |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1862549184 |
Roger Dunlop, much-loved general practitioner in Sydney's eastern suburbs, has chronicled a life that encompasses the land, the medical profession, and not least his own iconic and eccentric family.