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27917 frontmatter.qxp 7/9/08 1:21 PM Page ix Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Laying the Foundation 9 2. Inventing the Resort: Saratoga Springs 34 3. The Revolution of Seeing: Tourism and the Founding of the Hudson River School 52 4. Travel Literature, the Fashionable Tour, and the Spread of Tourism 70 5. Expanding Tourism beyond the Springs: The Catskills and Niagara 85 6. Tourism and Literature: James Fenimore Cooper and Others 105 7. The First Tourist Guidebook War 112 8. Tourism’s Broader Audience 125 9. Skeptics 134 10. The Next Big Thing 157 Notes 163 Index 209 Illustrations follow page 84. ix 27917 frontmatter.qxp 7/9/08 1:21 PM Page x ...

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