Selling British Columbia is an entertaining examination of the development of the tourist
industry in British Columbia between 1890 and 1970. Michael Dawson argues that in order …

It takes work to erase labor from a landscape. John Watt knew this cruel irony not only in the
synapses of his mind but also in the sinews of his body. Bent and almost broken, struggling …

The Canada depicted by the Canadian tourism industry is a testament to a specific period in
the history of Canadian nation building. The year 1934 marked a turning point in the national …

SiNCE THE PUBLiCATioN of Edward Said's landmark study, Orientalism (1978), cultural
historians have generally viewed travel writers within the theoretical contours of the …

Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American
West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the California-based artist Maynard Dixon …

Abstract Founded by Frederick Henry Harvey in 1876, the Fred Harvey Company was a
family-run hotel chain located along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad's tracks …

Upon first sight of the eponymous cowboy, the narrator of Owen Wister's The Virginian notes
that" he had plainly come many mil from somewhere across the vast horizon, as the dust …

The story of the people who sailed the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Hawai 'i, Samoa,
and points beyond is well documented, yet historians have neglected the voyages …

This dissertation uses the Ludlow Massacre and the 1913–14 Colorado coal miners' strike to
examine changing relationships between workers, capitalists, and the environment during …

This dissertation is a comparative study on the sustainability of two Colorado Plateau
communities in the years following World War II: Moab, Utah and Page, Arizona. Both of …