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Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. By Richard D. Starnes. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005. xvi, 240 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1462-8.)
The Vanderbilt mansion in Biltmore, North Carolina, is among the most famous tourist sites in the United States, and it attracts visitors from around the world. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, a large portion of which is located in western North Carolina, is by far the most visited park in the National Park system. Its roughly 10 million annual visitors are twice as many as those of its nearest competitor, the Grand Canyon. Richard D. Starnes recounts how western North Carolina became one of the most prominent tourist regions in the country. . . .
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