In Search of the Golden West

Auteur: Pomeroy, Earl
Editeur: University of Nebraska Press
The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they travelled in sumptuous ""palace cars"" and stayed at luxury hotels. This volume offers splendid old-time photographs and descriptions of nabobs, hucksters, naturalists, dudes, realtors, and motorists - all those who sought the reality and created the myth of the Golden West.

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The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they travelled in sumptuous ""palace cars"" and stayed at luxury hotels. This volume offers splendid old-time photographs and descriptions of nabobs, hucksters, naturalists, dudes, realtors, and motorists - all those who sought the reality and created the myth of the Golden West.
ISBN / EAN 9780803228207
Auteur Pomeroy, Earl
Editeur University of Nebraska Press