From Library Journal
Corcoran, a Salt Lake City typesetter and freelance writer, has written a thoroughly researched, detailed, historic guide to Park City, Utah. Three walking tours-Main Street, Old Town, and Lower Town and Ski Resort-and three bicycling tours-Snyderville Basin, Empire Canyon, and Telemark Hollow-give a flavor for the town and area. As Corcoran writes in his introduction, "Park City is in Utah but not of it." Its present and past show a great gap between the staunch Mormonism of most of the rest of the state and the more wide-open and liberal environment that is closer in style to Aspen or Lake Tahoe. The tours go into great detail about each building (59 buildings are featured in the one-mile Main St. chapter alone). Corcoran presents the architecture, history, sociology, and politics of a wonderful destination resort. His guide will still be very useful in 2002, when the region hosts the Winter Olympics.
Thomas K. Fry, Penrose Lib, Univ. of Denver
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Thomas K. Fry, Penrose Lib, Univ. of Denver
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
