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- Title
Selling the Scenery: Chauncey and Gronway Parry and the Birth of Southern Utah's Tourism and Movie Industries.
- Authors
Seegmiller, Janet B.
- Abstract
The article discusses the origins of Utah's tourism and movie industries, focusing on the entrepreneurial efforts of Utah businessmen Chauncey and Gronway Parry. The Parry brothers were responsible for initiating "Golden Circle" auto and bus tours of Utah's National Parks in 1917 after founding the National Park Transportation and Camping Company with camp developer William W. Wylie, and they began promoting Utah's landscapes as locations for Hollywood movies in the 1920s. Other topics include Union Pacific railroad company's involvement in tourism in Utah, and the filming of the movies "The Deadwood Coach," and "Can't Help Singing."
- Subjects
UTAH; UNITED States; TOURISM; PARRY, Chauncey; PARRY, Gronway; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; MOTION picture industry; TOURS; WYLIE, William W.; UNION Pacific Railroad Co. Inc.; CAN'T Help Singing (Film); HISTORY of the motion picture industry
- Publication
Utah Historical Quarterly, 2012, Vol 80, Issue 3, p242
- ISSN
0042-143X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/45062903