Gassan, Richard H.,  1958- <br/><br/>
The birth of American tourism :  New York, the Hudson Valley, and American culture, 1790-1830 / 
Richard H. Gassan. 
 - Amherst :  University of Massachusetts Press,  (c)2008. 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 213 pages, 10. pages of plates) :  illustrations 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Laying the foundation --  Inventing the resort : Saratoga Springs --  The revolution of seeing : tourism and the founding of the Hudson River School --  Travel literature, the fashionable tour, and the spread of tourism --  Expanding tourism beyond the Springs : the Catskills and Niagara --  Tourism and literature : James Fenimore Cooper and others --  The first tourist guidebook war --  Tourism's broader audience --  Skeptics --  The next big things. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. <br/>http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781613760925 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Tourism--History--New York (State)--19th century.<br/>Tourism--History--United States--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>G155  / .B578 2008