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Historians Approach Tourism in the American West: A Review Essay - Devil's Bargains: Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West. ByHal K. Rothman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xi + 434 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographic essay, index. Cloth, $34.95; paper, $17.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-60910-5; paper 0-700-61056-1. - Seeing & Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Edited byDavid M. Wrobel andPatrick T. Long. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xv + 336 pp. Illustrations. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $19.95. ISBN: Cloth 0-700-61082-0; paper 0-700-61083-9.

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Mansel G. Blackford
Mansel G. Blackford
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Mansel G. Blackford is professor of history atThe Ohio State University.
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Business History Review , Volume 75 , Issue 3 , Autumn 2001 , pp. 579 - 585
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1 MacCannel, Dean, The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (New York, 1976)Google Scholar, and Smith, Valene, ed., Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism (Philadelphia, 1977)Google Scholar, are seminal works. The author would like to thank Professors William Childs and David Stebenne of The Ohio State University for commenting on earlier drafts of this essay.

2 One example is Hall, Colin, Tourism and Politics: Policy, Power, and Place (New York, 1994)Google Scholar.

3 On the historical development of tourism in the United States, see especially: Aron, Cindy S., Working at Play: A History of Vacations in the United States (New York, 1999)Google Scholar; Jakle, John A., The Tourist: Travel in Twentieth-Century North America (Lincoln, 1985)Google Scholar; and Lofgren, Ovar, On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (Berkeley, 1999)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Pomeroy, Earl, In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America (New York, 1957)Google Scholar.

5 See also: Cox, Thomas, “Before the Casino: James G. Scugham, State Parks, and Nevada's Quest for Tourism,” Western Historical Quarterly 24 (Aug. 1993): 333–50CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Davis, Susan G., “Landscapes of the Imagination: Tourism in Southern California,” Pacific Historical Review 68 (May 1999): 173–91CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hafen, Thomas, “City of Saints, City of Sinners: The Development of Salt Lake City as a Tourist Attraction, 1869–1900,” Western Historical Quarterly 28 (Autumn 1997): 343–77CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Weigel, Marta, “Canyon, Caverns, and Coordinates: From Nature Tourism to Nuclear Tourism in the Southwest,” Journal of the Southwest 39 (Summer 1997): 165–82Google Scholar.

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7 Patrick Long, “For Residents and Visitors Alike: Seeking Tourism's Benefits, Minimizing Tourism's Costs,” in Wrobel and Long, eds., Seeing & Being Seen, pp. 81–2.

8 On the transformation of the trans-Mississippi West during World War II, see especially Nash, Gerald, The American West Transformed: The Impact of the Second World War (Bloomington, Ind., 1985)Google Scholar, and World War II and the West: Reshaping the Economy (Lincoln, 1990)Google Scholar.

9 There is a growing literature. See Arlington, Leonard and Alley, John, Harold F. Silver: Businessman and Civic Leader (Logan, 1992)Google Scholar; Davis, Clark, Company Men: White-Collar Life and Corporate Culture in Los Angeles, 1892–1941 (Baltimore, 2000)Google Scholar; Foster, Mark S., Henry J. Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West (Austin, 1989)Google Scholar; Nash, Gerald D., A. P. Giannini and the Bank of America (Norman, Okla., 1992)Google Scholar; and Pratt, Joseph and Castaneda, Christopher, Builders: Herman and George R. Brown (College Station, Tex., 1999)Google Scholar. The January 1986 (vol. 25) edition of Journal of the West is devoted to business entrepreneurs in the West.