Fodor's California 2016
Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher: Fodor's
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 1101878436
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Author: Fodor's Travel Publications, Inc
Publisher: Fodor's
Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 962
ISBN-13: 1101878436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDetachable, pull-out color map attached to page [3] of cover.
Author: Earl Thollander
Publisher: Sunset Books/Sunset Publishing Corporation
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Beebe Turrill
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCharles Beebe Turrill (1854-1927) was a California historian and promoter. California notes (1876) is a guide for travellers, offering details of the state's weather, geology, and vegetation as well as recommended travel routes, historical notes, business statistics, and sightseeing tips for visitors to San Francisco, Stockton, Calaveras County and its mammoth trees and caves, the gold mining district, and the Yosemite Valley.
Author: Edwin Bryant
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free Library
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 440
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. Philip Gruen
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-09-02
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0806147318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTourists started visiting the American West in sizable numbers after the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were completed in 1869. Contemporary travel brochures and guidebooks of the 1870s sold tourists on the spectacular scenery of the West, and depicted its cities as extensions of the natural landscape—as well as places where efficient business operations and architectural grandeur prevailed—all now easily accessible thanks to the relative comfort of transcontinental rail travel. Yet as people flocked to western cities, it was the everyday life that captured their interest—the new technologies, incessant clatter, and all the upheaval of modern metropolises. In Manifest Destinations, J. Philip Gruen examines the ways in which tourists experienced Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco between 1869 and 1893, a period of rapid urbanization and accelerated modernity. Gruen pays particular attention to the contrast between the way these cities were promoted and the way visitors actually experienced them. Guidebooks made Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City, and San Francisco seem like picturesque environments sprinkled with civilized buildings and refined people. But Gruen’s research in diaries, letters, and traveler narratives shows that tourists were interested—as tourists usually are—in the unexpected encounters that characterize city life. Visitors relished the cities’ unfamiliar storefronts and advertising, public transit systems, ethnic diversity, and multiple dwellings in all their urban messiness. They thrust themselves into the noise, danger, and cacophony. Western cities did not always live up to the marketing strategies of guidebooks, but the western cities’ fast pace and many novelties held extraordinary appeal to visitors from the East Coast and abroad. In recounting lively anecdotes, and by focusing on tourist perceptions of everyday life in western cities, Gruen shows how these cities developed the economy of tourism to eventually encompass both the urban and the natural West.
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free Library
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
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Published: 1888
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: ROBERT R. HUBACH
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: California State Library
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Published: 1953
Total Pages: 1192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.