Manifest destinations : cities and tourists in the nineteenth-century American West / J. Philip Gruen.

Author: Gruen, J. Philip, 1969-

Imprint:Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014.

Descriptionxxvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Note:Introduction: Into the unknown -- Attraction: modernity and the metropolis -- Promotion: escape to the picturesque -- Confusion: wonder, turmoil, awe, and hell -- Civilization: architectural art, pretense, and process -- Cosmopolitanism: editing and revising culture.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references(pages 245-269) and index.

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