Abstract:This article explores the relationship between print culture, tourism, and antebellum social and political issues. I define the antebellum tourism guidebook as a unique genre that disavowed the existence of nontourist populations through text and image. In particular, I argue that guidebook authors quote and cite the work of other authors (including Washington Irving) to create a mythology for the Catskills that marginalizes nonwhite people and encourages their removal: by imagining Native Americans as belonging exclusively to a mythic past, Irving and other authors provide a metaphorical framework for Manifest Destiny. This article exposes how deeply embedded tourism print culture was in antebellum ideologies of progress and empire.

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书写白度：战前指南和卡茨基尔旅游和印刷业景观的编纂

摘要：本文探讨了印刷文化、旅游与战前社会和政治问题之间的关系。我将战前旅游指南定义为一种独特的流派，它通过文本和图像否认非旅游人口的存在。特别是，我认为指南作者引用和引用其他作者（包括华盛顿欧文）的作品为卡茨基尔人创造了一个神话，将非白人边缘化并鼓励他们被驱逐：通过想象美洲原住民完全属于一个神话般的过去，欧文和其他作者为 Manifest Destiny 提供了一个隐喻框架。本文揭示了旅游印刷文化在战前的进步和帝国意识形态中的根深蒂固。