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From Skisport to Skiing: One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
From Skisport to Skiing One Hundred Years of an American Sport 18401940 Author:E. John B. Allen This is a full-length study of skiing in the United States, tracing the history of the sport from its utilitarian origins (when frontier-dwellers in the mid-1800s mining communities used skis for practical purposes) to its advent as a purely recreational and competitive activity in the 1940s.