Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Excerpt from Our American Resorts: For Health, Pleasure, and Recreation; Where to Go and How to Get There The work of Planning, gathering materials for and preparing this edition of Our American Resorts was not begun until late in the season, or about the time it should have been ready for the press. It has, therefore, been hurriedly done. Of its shortcomings and imperfections the editor is quite as well aware as will be its severest critics. The difficulties encountered in the preparation of such a work are multitudinous, not the least of which is the tardiness and lack of enterprise among those whose interest it is to have information concerning themselves widely disseminated. For this unbusiness-like backwardness, the many worthless and dishonest publications through which they have been annoyed and defrauded are, no doubt, largely responsible. But this, added to the great difficulty in reaching proprietors of resorts at a season when they are not open, has rendered any approach to completeness in the present issue impossible. Still, the work as it is compares favorably with any of its class heretofore published, and ultimately it shall be vastly superior to them all. Nothing like a Directory has been attempted. A work of that character sufficiently complete to embrace all the nooks and hamlets that consider themselves resorts would require more than a thousand pages of closely-condensed matter, involve interminable labor, and possess no special interest when issued. In these pages an effort has been made to present in readable form with numerous illustrations for embellishment and aid correct impressions of the important resorts and natural wonders within the borders of our own land, including something concerning the characteristics and climates of the localities in which they are situated. The work therefore, without being strictly either a Guide, Gazetteer or Handbook, contains much information pertaining to the realm of travel for health or sight-seeing. On the first of May next a thoroughly revised edition will be issued, containing all that is worth gathering to complete the work, with over one hundred additional illustrations, many of them from new and original sketches, engraved by the best artists. The aim will be to embrace not only all places worthy of note, but to incorporate the fullest details concerning them, their accommodations, and the various routes of travel. A table of railway and steamboat fares between resorts named and the principal cities will also be added. Meanwhile correspondence is solicited with all who may be interested. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Our American Resorts: For Health, Pleasure, and Recreation; Where to Go and How to Get There Blended - Excellence Of the Farms - Resorts along the great Pennsylvania Railroad The Valley of the Schuylkill and Reading Railroad. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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In the midst of the Great Depression, Americans were nearly universally literate--and they were hungry for the written word. With an eye to this market and as a response to unemployment, Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration created the Federal Writers' Project. They produced the Project's American Guides, an impressively produced series that set out not only to direct travelers on which routes to take and what to see throughout the country, but also to celebrate the distinctive characteristics of each individual state. The series unintentionally diversified American literary culture's cast of characters--promoting women, minority, and rural writers--while it also institutionalized the innovative idea that American culture comes in state-shaped boxes.