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Coastto Coast presents an extraordinary journeyvia rail, steamboat, automobile, and even horseback of a continent just beginning to discover itself. Traveling through the great cities, magnificent landscapes, and highways of a bygone America, the book is illustrated with vintage photographs, posters, travel brochures, and other charming ephemera. By the end of the 19th century, North America was fully settled, and the eras robust economy led to the invention of affordable popular tourism. Even people of modest means could comfortably tour the continent, and a wealth of tourist attractions Niagara Falls, Crater Lake, the Grand Canyon and other sites in the brand-new national parks, New Yorks Pennsylvania Station, San Franciscos Embarcadero, the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Banff Springs Hotel, and many more. With five maps and nine color inserts of facsimile menus, guidebooks, and vintage postcards displaying everything from cog railways running up Mount Washington to ostrich farms outside Pasadena and Arkansass spectacular Hot Springs, this brilliantly researched book provides a tour of an America just beginning to flex its muscles as a world-class tourist attraction. Praise

Author

Anthony Shugaar; Marc Walter; Antony Shugaar; Gerard Piouffre; Anthony Shugaar

Publisher

New York: Vendome Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780865652590

Subjects

Sociology, History, Travel

Rating

3.75 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14