Dr J Philip Gruen: 1 book
Manifest Destinations
Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Tourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the...
