The Story of Trailer and It's Actors; As a Mobile Home Case _ Nur Gülgör Thesis

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wagons was carrying belongings like baggage. In the same period, the workers
carrying goods in the Conestoga wagon can define as the first “roaders.”
Unlike the emigrants, they made more individual and shorter journeys. But
like emigrants, they stayed in tents outside the wagon when it got dark.
In the post-war period of the second half of the 19th century, the
great wave of immigration started to decline, and pioneers settled and
established their cities and farmlands. This situation resulted in a significant
increase in the American population. This rapid population growth in the
eastern seaboard’s congested, dirty, and inadequately sterilized towns and
cities coast caused serious diseases. Tuberculosis was the leading cause of
death in 1850s America. On the advice of their family doctor, thousands of
immigrants suffering from diseases traveled west between 1840 and 1900 in
search of the only known “cure” at the time—a healthier environment and
less stressful way of life. 31 The minimum number of tuberculosis migrants
in the southwest, according to the National Tuberculosis Association, is ten
thousand; if we count their families, there are thirty thousand additional
people, at least half of whom are kids. 32 This group of people was referred to
as “health seekers” which is one of the “roader” groups.
Ambulance wagons were the most comfortable vehicle for rough
roads in the 1850s, and there was also the advantage of lying down for
patients. However, these wagons carried wounded to health centers during
the civil war period were not adequately equipped for the health seekers’
long journeys. In a 1975 interview in the Nebraska State Journal, health
seeker James K. Newcombe described how he customized the ambulance
wagon for travel. In the following years, camp vehicles were produced and
people started to make short trips to national parks to get fresh mountain air.
Even some families produced their own “house on wheels.”
Although the habits of being on the road and camping in natural
parks started for seeking health first, it turned into a touristic journey for some
Americans over time. The dramatic American landscapes attracted and became
the touristic equivalent of Europe’s historical buildings for “travel tourists,”
including a new and quickly expanding group of middle-class Americans as well
as some wealthy and curious European visitors. 33 “Wilderness” was the main
concept of American tourism. Travelers described their travel experiences in
their books. William Murray, one of the travelers of the period, describes his
first camping experience in the Adirondack Mountain in New York in his book
“Adventures in the Wilderness; Or, Camp-Life in the Adirondacks” published in
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