Harnessing the Romance of the Past: Preservation, Tourism, and History

Abstract

explain the. importance of Buffalo Bill to a young girl. Unfortunately, however, this well-intentioned woman had, by some unlucky trick of the memory, . . . Buffalo Bill mixed in her mind with Theodore Roosevelt. 'I remember, honey, . . . when he organised an army called the Rough Riders, so they elected him president. He did something too about cleaning New York streets with a lot of men he called White Wings ... History,' she concluded, after this impassioned outburst, 'is a wonderful thing.' Finger's account captures a slice of the reality that is present at virtually every historical site in the nation. In consistently high numbers, tourists have traveled around the United States visiting historic sites and muse-

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