| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West. Ed. by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001. xvi, 336 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-1082-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7006-1083-9.)

When I began planning my first graduate seminar in the history of American tourism a little over seven years ago, I ran immediately into trouble. John Jakle's The Tourist (1985) was already out of print, and Earl Pomeroy's In Search of the Golden West (1957) was, well, nearly forty years old. One book that I liked--John Sears's Sacred Places (1989)--was available only in hardcover, while another--Dean MacCannell's The Tourist (1976, 1989)--seemed dated, if somehow seminal. In the end, I did what most of us do in such a situation: cobbled together articles and book chapters in the hopes that together they would add up to something coherent. These days, my problem is exactly the opposite, as so much rich literature on the historical development of tourism in the United States makes keeping reading lists to a manageable length a challenge. 1

Among the regions benefiting most from a veritable explosion of tourism studies, the West stands out, and in this literature we are fortunate to have Seeing and Being Seen. Edited by David M. Wrobel and Patrick T. Long, the book brings together in one volume thirteen well-written chapters that outline some of the most salient issues affecting regional change. 'Tourism,' the editors note, 'is the engine driving so many contemporary western debates over land use and culture--over where we live and who we are'--that examining leisure travel with care and nuance is a vital contemporary task. . . .

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