Dianne N. reviewed Sixty Miles from Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American Interior on + 32 more book reviews
Drawing on the work of more than three hundred travel writers ( Dickens, Fuller, Trollope, Twain) this book offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.
John O. (buzzby) -
Interesting book, he goes over what 300 known and not-so-well-known travelers thought of the interior (he defines it as north of the Ohio). A lot happened in the 19th century, so he can't always make sweeping generalizations for the whole time.
