Selling the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and the Making of Cultural Tourism

A new interpretation of the Fred Harvey Company in almost all its aspects related to cultural tourism in the Southwest from the late-nineteenth century to post–World War II.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Fred Harvey Company played a pivotal role in crafting the mythology of the “Indigenous Southwest” through its expansive network of railroad hotels, tourist enterprises, and cultural excursions across Native homelands. In this deeply researched narrative, historian...