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- catalog abstract "In the nineteenth century, the most interesting and exotic place on the face of the earth was the American interior--now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Travelers came from all over the world to report on and argue about everything they found there: the frenzied eating habits, the obsession with spitting tobacco, the hunting and child-rearing customs, the region's mysterious prehistoric past, the fascinating Indian population, the disappointing tedium of the landscape, and, most bedeviling of all, the odd definition of material comfort. Drawing on the work of more than three hundred travel writers--among them Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain--from America's own East Coast and from fourteen other countries, this book offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.It is an iconoclastic, bottom-up approach to history that shines a startling light on the manners and mores of a society that never ceased to surprise. Attracted by a landscape unlike any they had seen before, travelers found to their dismay that they had to battle swarms of insects, hot and humid summers, and dangerously harsh winters. They were amazed by the primitive condition in which even the wealthiest settlers lived. Huge pigs pushed ladies and gentlemen off sidewalks, and umbrellas were used indoors to catch rain, sleet, and snow that "sifted through" faulty roofs. Comfort, a matter of central import to these travelers, was always "at some place where no one had ever been." No hard pioneers or Sunbonnet Sues, no false elegiac tone, no nostalgia or blurry sentimentality cloud this account. Dismantling the myths propagated by today's "Bed and Breakfast" tourist literature, Sixty Miles from Contentment is a revitalization--at turns lively, raucous, painful, serious, and often funny--of a pulsating American scene.".
- catalog contributor b8823344.
- catalog coverage "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog coverage "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "In the nineteenth century, the most interesting and exotic place on the face of the earth was the American interior--now the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Travelers came from all over the world to report on and argue about everything they found there: the frenzied eating habits, the obsession with spitting tobacco, the hunting and child-rearing customs, the region's mysterious prehistoric past, the fascinating Indian population, the disappointing tedium of the landscape, and, most bedeviling of all, the odd definition of material comfort. Drawing on the work of more than three hundred travel writers--among them Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain--from America's own East Coast and from fourteen other countries, this book offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.It is an iconoclastic, bottom-up approach to history that shines a startling light on the manners and mores of a society that never ceased to surprise. Attracted by a landscape unlike any they had seen before, travelers found to their dismay that they had to battle swarms of insects, hot and humid summers, and dangerously harsh winters. They were amazed by the primitive condition in which even the wealthiest settlers lived. Huge pigs pushed ladies and gentlemen off sidewalks, and umbrellas were used indoors to catch rain, sleet, and snow that "sifted through" faulty roofs. Comfort, a matter of central import to these travelers, was always "at some place where no one had ever been." No hard pioneers or Sunbonnet Sues, no false elegiac tone, no nostalgia or blurry sentimentality cloud this account. Dismantling the myths propagated by today's "Bed and Breakfast" tourist literature, Sixty Miles from Contentment is a revitalization--at turns lively, raucous, painful, serious, and often funny--of a pulsating American scene.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-265) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 277 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Sixty miles from contentment.".
- catalog identifier "0465033652".
- catalog isFormatOf "Sixty miles from contentment.".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : BasicBooks,".
- catalog relation "Sixty miles from contentment.".
- catalog spatial "United States Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "United States Social life and customs 19th century.".
- catalog subject "917.304/8 20".
- catalog subject "E161.5 .D86 1995".
- catalog subject "Travel writing History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Travelers' writings, European History and criticism.".
- catalog title "Sixty miles from contentment : traveling the nineteenth-century American interior / M.H. Dunlop.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".