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From Buckskin to Gore-Tex: Consumption as a Path to Mastery in Twentieth-Century American Wilderness Recreation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 November 2018

RACHEL GROSS
RACHEL GROSS*
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Rachel Gross is a Postdoctoral Teaching, Research, and Mentoring Fellow at the Davidson Honors College of the University of Montana. She completed her PhD in U.S. History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017. E-mail: rachel.gross@umontana.edu
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Krooss Prize Dissertation Summaries
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 2018 , pp. 826 - 835
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Copyright © The Author 2018. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. 

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Blaszczyk, Regina Lee. “Styling Synthetics: DuPont’s Marketing of Fabrics and Fashions in Postwar America.” Business History Review 80, no. 3 (Autumn 2006), 485–528.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kropp, Phoebe. “Wilderness Wives and Dishwashing Husbands: Comfort and the Domestic Arts of Camping in America, 1880–1910.” Journal of Social History 43, no. 1 (Fall 2009): 5–30.Google Scholar
Scott, William R. “California Casual: Lifestyle Marketing and Men’s Leisurewear, 1930–1960.” In Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers, edited by Lee Blaszczyk, Regina, 169–186. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.Google Scholar
Simon, Gregory, and Peter, Alagona. “Contradictions at the Confluence of Commerce, Consumption, and Conservation; or, an REI Shopper Camps in the Forest, Does Anyone Notice?” Geoforum 45 (2013): 325–336.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Turner, James Morton. “From Woodcraft to ‘Leave no Trace’: Wilderness, Consumerism, and Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America.” Environmental History 7, no. 3 (July, 2002): 462–484.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hagley Library, Wilmington, DEGoogle Scholar
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, ORGoogle Scholar
Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Washington, DCGoogle Scholar