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Virgin land: the American West as symbol and myth

Smith, Henry Nash.

Year: 1970, c1950.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

Prologue Eighteenth-Century Origins

Book One Passage to India

I A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the Far West

II Passage to India: Thomas Hart Benton and Asa Whitney

III. The Untransacted Destiny: William Gilpin

IV. Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny

Book Two The Sons of Leatherstocking

V Daniel Boone: Empire Builder or Philosopher of Primitivism?

VI. Leatherstocking and the Problem of Social Order

VII. The Innocence and Wildness of Nature: Charles W. Webber and Others

VIII. The Mountain Man as Western Hero: Kit Carson

IX. The Western Hero in the Dime Novel

X. The Dime Novel Heroine

Book Three The Garden of the World

XI. The Garden of the World and American Agrarianism

XII. The Yeoman and the Fee-Simple Empire

XIII. The South and the Myth of the Garden

XIV. The New Calculus of Western Energies

XV. The Agrarian Utopia in Politics: The Homestead Act

XVI. The Garden and the Desert

XVIII. Failure of the Agrarian Utopia

XIX. The Myth of the Garden and Reform of the Land System

XX. The Garden as Safety Valve

XXI. The Agricultural West in Literature

XXII. The Myth of the Garden and Turner's Frontier Hypothesis

Notes

Index

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Title:

Virgin land : the American West as symbol and myth Henry Nash Smith.

Author:

Smith, Henry Nash

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Virgin land : the American West as symbol and myth Henry Nash Smith.
Smith, Henry Nash
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970, c1950.

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Subject Headings:

• American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• West (U.S.) -- In literature
• West (U.S.)

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