For the Love of Skiing: A Visual History

Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1998. First Edition. 180pp. Quarto [28 cm] Blue cloth with silver stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Inscribed by the author on the title page. For the Love of Skiing tells the story of U.S. ski sports from 1880 to the coming of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The early days of competitive skiing were a time of broken bones and broken records as ski jumpers thrilled crowds across the country, from the East Coast to the upper Midwest to California. Along with a historical review of the major competitions across the United States from the 1930s to the present, For the Love of Skiing relates many of the wildest early ski adventures.