Origins Of Western Tourism

Focusing on an era after the railroads provided viable visitor access to the West but before the rise of the automobile, J. Philip Gruen’s poignantly titled Manifest Destinations: Cities and Tourists in the Nineteenth-Century American West, provides an illuminating assessment of the “modern” era of Western tourism in the cities of Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. The book’s refreshing view of these urban centers, which diverges from a more customary post-World War I