During the years following the Civil War,many artists, including Winslow Homer,Frederic Edwin Church, and Thomas Moran, created images of America's regional scenic wonders and great landscape icons.These works, as well as decorative-arts objects,photographs, and other ephemera, forged a unique American identity, helped to make the conntry's landscape a source of national pride, and promoted landscape tourism.

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

LANDSCAPE ICONS, TOURISM,

AND LAND DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHEAST

THE BEST POSSIBLE VIEW:

PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION IN THE AMERICAN WEST

THE PASTORAL IDEAL:

WINSLOW HOMER'S BUCOLIC AMERICA

AMERICA INSIDE OUT: THE VIEW FROM THE PARLOR

SELECTED TIMELINE

NOTES

REFERENCES

PLATE LIST

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX