Overview: Bridges scholarship of western literature and culture with Tourism Studies, Sociology, and Ethnography and Anthropology.Provides the first focused exploration of dark tourism in the American West.Valu.This edited collection expands scholarly and popular conversations about dark tourism in the American West. The phenomenon of dark tourism—traveling to sites of death, suffering, and disaster for entertainment or educational purposes—has been described and, on occasion, criticized for transforming misfortune and catastrophe into commodity. The impulse, however, continues, particularly i
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