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Roughing it De Luxe

by Irvin S. Cobb

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Luxury trains, expensive hotels and elaborate meals give Irvin S. Cobb plenty of material for teasing travelers who claim to be roughing it in the American West. His account opens with a trip from Chicago toward the Grand Canyon, where the grandeur of the scenery competes with the habits of his fellow passengers. A camera enthusiast records almost everything, while an anxious traveler repeatedly asks whether he must change trains at Williams.

The California passages turn from mountains, coastal bays and sea lions to real estate agents and sprawling tourist hotels. Cobb mixes appreciation of the landscape with jokes about the people selling it and the visitors enjoying it. These travel sketches offer a look at comfortable western tourism through a narrator who keeps noticing the gap between adventurous talk and well catered reality.

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Irvin S. Cobb

Irvin S. Cobb, whose full name was Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, moved from Kentucky newspapers to national reporting, magazine work, fiction and screenwriting. Born in Paducah in 1876, he began as a local reporter and later joined Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. He also reported from Europe during the First World War.

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Pages
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