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Sixty Miles From Contentment: Traveling The Nineteenth-Century American Interior
Sixty Miles From Contentment Traveling The NineteenthCentury American Interior
Author: M. H. Dunlop
A witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday, as seen through the eyes of travelers to whom the American interior was the most interesting and exotic place on earth. "A lively study of the real and the legendary American Midwest. . . . A contribution to 19th-century American social and regional history that is as enjoyable as it...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780813334325
ISBN-10: 0813334322
Publication Date: 1/29/1998
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Westview Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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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.
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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.