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Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina.(Book review)

Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. By Richard D. Starnes. Modern South. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, c. 2005. Pp. xvi, 240. $35.00, ISBN 0-8173-1462-8.)

Richard D. Starnes presents here a social and economic history of the tourism industry in western North Carolina from the 1820s to the present. He examines the interplay between regional interests and national clienteles, local elites and average citizens, Native and European Americans, and blacks and whites, to draw a thickly textured portrait of the coevolution of a region and one of its dominant industries.

The author draws on numerous local and national ...

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