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Manifest Destinations: Tourist Encounters in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban American West
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Manifest Destinations: Tourist Encounters in the Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban American West

J. Philip Gruen
Washington State University Academic Showcase (Pullman, Washington)
03/28/2008
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1408
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Abstract

Urban development San Francisco Denver Salt Lake City Transcontinental Railroad Chinese Mormons Cosmopolitanism Chicago Guidebooks Architecture Tourism
This interdisciplinary project addresses the often contentious relationship between the presentation of place and its experience through a study of urban tourism in the late-nineteenth-century American West. It investigates encounters in four rapidly expanding cities: Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco, paying careful attention to tourist impressions as often as the claims of city officials and entrepreneurs attempting to shape cites for personal profit.

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