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Virgin land: the American West as symbol and myth
Henry Nash Smith
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Frontmatter (page N/A)
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Prologue Eighteenth-Century Origins (page 3)
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Book One Passage to India (page 13)
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I A Highway to the Pacific: Thomas Jefferson and the Far West (page 15)
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II Passage to India: Thomas Hart Benton and Asa Whitney (page 19)
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III. The Untransacted Destiny: William Gilpin (page 35)
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IV. Walt Whitman and Manifest Destiny (page 44)
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Book Two The Sons of Leatherstocking (page 49)
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V Daniel Boone: Empire Builder or Philosopher of Primitivism? (page 51)
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VI. Leatherstocking and the Problem of Social Order (page 59)
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VII. The Innocence and Wildness of Nature: Charles W. Webber and Others (page 71)
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VIII. The Mountain Man as Western Hero: Kit Carson (page 81)
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IX. The Western Hero in the Dime Novel (page 90)
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X. The Dime Novel Heroine (page 112)
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Book Three The Garden of the World (page 121)
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XI. The Garden of the World and American Agrarianism (page 123)
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XII. The Yeoman and the Fee-Simple Empire (page 133)
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XIII. The South and the Myth of the Garden (page 145)
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XIV. The New Calculus of Western Energies (page 155)
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XV. The Agrarian Utopia in Politics: The Homestead Act (page 165)
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XVI. The Garden and the Desert (page 174)
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XVII. The Empire Redivivus (page 184)
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XVIII. Failure of the Agrarian Utopia (page 189)
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XIX. The Myth of the Garden and Reform of the Land System (page 195)
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XX. The Garden as Safety Valve (page 201)
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XXI. The Agricultural West in Literature (page 211)
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XXII. The Myth of the Garden and Turner's Frontier Hypothesis (page 250)
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Notes (page 263)
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Index (page 299)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AHR | 56.4 (Jul. 1951): 905-907 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28195107%2956%3A4%3C905%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O |
AL | 22.4 (Jan. 1951): 534-536 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9831%28195101%2922%3A4%3C534%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-K |
AQ | 2.3 (Autumn 1950): 279-282 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0678%28195023%292%3A3%3C279%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H |
JSH | 16.3 (Aug. 1950): 350-352 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28195008%2916%3A3%3C350%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D |
WMQ | 3.7.3 (Jul. 1950): 474-476 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0043-5597%28195007%293%3A7%3A3%3C474%3A%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
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Published: 1970
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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