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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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Hagley Library, Wilmington, DEGoogle Scholar
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, ORGoogle Scholar
Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Washington, DCGoogle Scholar