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Contents List of Illustrations viii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 3 Part 1 The Scene 13 ‘‘Solidity, Strength, and Grandeur’’ 16 ‘‘A Country More Wildly Picturesque’’ 31 ‘‘At Great Trouble and Expense’’ 36 ‘‘Bribe High and You Live High’’ 49 Part 2 Healing Waters 57 ‘‘King Cure All’’ 59 ‘‘They All Drink the Waters without the Advice of Any Medical Man’’ 68 ‘‘Every Day Var[ies] a Little’’ 78 ‘‘The Most Delicious Sensations’’ 85 Part 3 Community and Competition 99 ‘‘A Never Ceasing Scene of Stir, Animation, Display, & Enjoyment’’ 104 ‘‘Forming Violent Friendships in Three Days Time’’ 119 ‘‘You Might Have Supposed Them All Quite Intimate’’ 127 ‘‘You Are Now Just Entering upon That School of Life’’ 142 ‘‘A Great Deal Is Affected, but Nothing on the Heart in It’’ 152 ‘‘Love-Making May Fairly Be Set Down as One of the Amusements of the Virginia Springs’’ 175 ‘‘They Seemed to Sink into the Deepest Insignificance’’ 187 ‘‘Honor to Those Days of Chivalry’’ 200 Conclusion 209 Notes 215 Works Cited 265 Index 285 ...

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