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Seeing and being seen : tourism in the American West / edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long ; foreword by Earl Pomeroy.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Lawrence : Published for the Center of the American West, University of Colorado at Boulder by the University Press of Kansas, c2001.Description: xv, 336 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0700610820 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0700610839 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4/791780434 21
LOC classification:
  • G155.U6 S42 2001
Contents:
Introduction: tourists, tourism, and the toured upon / David M. Wrobel -- Seeing and being seen: tourism in the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Why I love tourists: confessions of a dharma bum / Rudolfo Anaya -- For residents and visitors alike: seeking tourism's benefits, minimizing tourism's costs / Patrick T. Long -- Shedding skin and shifting shape: tourism in the modern West / Hal Rothman -- No aid and no comfort: early transportation and the origins of tourism in the northern West / Carlos A. Schwantes -- Tourists and Indians in Fred Harvey's Southwest / Leah Dilworth -- Seeing America first: the search for identity in the tourist landscape / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Tourism, whiteness, and the vanishing Anglo / Sylvia Rodriguez -- Privations and inconveniences: early tourism in Yellowstone National Park / Paul Schullery -- Glaciers and gasoline: the making of a windshield wilderness, 1900-1915 / David Louter -- Selling the scenery: advertising and the national parks, 1916-1933 / Peter Blodgett -- A dignified exploitation: the growth of tourism in the national parks / Dwight T. Pitcaithley.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: tourists, tourism, and the toured upon / David M. Wrobel -- Seeing and being seen: tourism in the American West / Patricia Nelson Limerick -- Why I love tourists: confessions of a dharma bum / Rudolfo Anaya -- For residents and visitors alike: seeking tourism's benefits, minimizing tourism's costs / Patrick T. Long -- Shedding skin and shifting shape: tourism in the modern West / Hal Rothman -- No aid and no comfort: early transportation and the origins of tourism in the northern West / Carlos A. Schwantes -- Tourists and Indians in Fred Harvey's Southwest / Leah Dilworth -- Seeing America first: the search for identity in the tourist landscape / Marguerite S. Shaffer -- Tourism, whiteness, and the vanishing Anglo / Sylvia Rodriguez -- Privations and inconveniences: early tourism in Yellowstone National Park / Paul Schullery -- Glaciers and gasoline: the making of a windshield wilderness, 1900-1915 / David Louter -- Selling the scenery: advertising and the national parks, 1916-1933 / Peter Blodgett -- A dignified exploitation: the growth of tourism in the national parks / Dwight T. Pitcaithley.

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