Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt. by Eitner, Walter H., 1919-

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Walt Whitman's Western jaunt / by Eitner, Walter H., 1919-

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Frontier : American literature and the American West / by Fussell, Edwin S.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Leatherstocking tales of James Fenimore Cooper -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Sketches of Western adventure ; The scarlet letter ; Neutral territory -- Edgar Allan Poe -- South and West ; Narratives of exploration and discovery -- Henry David Thoreau -- Essential West ; Walden : the pioneer ; Walden : the frontier -- Herman Melville -- Early Western travels ; Moby-Dick ; Disputed frontier ; The confidence-man -- Indian summer of the literary West -- Thoreau's unwritten epic ; Hawthorne's last stand ; Melville as poet -- Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass.…”
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Virgin land : the American West as symbol and myth / by Smith, Henry Nash

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Eighteenth-century origins -- Book One: Passage to India -- A highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the far West -- Passage to India: Thomas Hart Benton and Asa Whitney -- The untransacted destiny: William Gilpin -- Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny -- Book Two: The sons of Leatherstocking -- Daniel Boone: empire builder or philosopher of primitivism? …”
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American West (1836-1900) /

Table of Contents: “…On Texas independence ; A foreigner in my own land ; Mexican denunciations of the United States ; The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ; On seizing land from native Californians ; Walt Whitman : The Spanish element in our nationality -- Westward movement. …”
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The great heart of the republic : St. Louis and the cultural Civil War / by Arenson, Adam, 1978-

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