The frontier in American literature /

The frontier in American literature / Edited by Philip Durham [and] Everett L. Jones.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Durham, Philip
Other Authors: Jones, Everett L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Odyssey Press, [1969]
Series:Perspectives on American literature.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > United States > Literary collections.
American literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The American frontier concept / Walter Prescott Webb
  • The significance of the frontier in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner
  • What is an American? / Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
  • Preface to The Virginian / Owen Wister
  • Pioneers! O pioneers! / Walt Whitman
  • The gift outright / Robert Frost
  • The history of the Plymouth Plantation / William Bradford
  • Escape from the cave / Charles Brockden Brown
  • Roger Malvin's burial / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving
  • The death of the trapper / James Fenimore Cooper
  • It came a Tuesday / Conrad Richter
  • Diony's vision / Elizabeth Madox Roberts
  • Harry Wilmans and John Wasson / Edgar Lee Masters
  • Under the lion's paw / Hamlin Garland
  • Scanlon / Wright Morris
  • My ́Antonia / Willa Cather
  • Departure from Winesburg / Sherwood Anderson
  • The grizzly and the buffalo / Vardis Fisher
  • Survival / Frederick F. Manfred
  • The way West / A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
  • Virgin earth / Harvey Fergusson
  • Calamity Jane / Edward L. Wheeler
  • The Jibbenainosay / Robert Montgomery Bird
  • The fight / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
  • The big bear of Arkansas / Thomas Bangs Thorpe
  • Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain
  • All gold canyon / Jack London
  • The Indian well / Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • Honey in the horn / H.L. Davis
  • The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain
  • The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte
  • Wheat / Frank Norris
  • Facing West from California's shores / Walt Whitman
  • The girl called Bluejay / Dorothy Johnson
  • The blue hotel / Stephen Crane
  • The Virginian / Owen Wister
  • Shane / Jack Schaefer
  • The tin star / John M. Cunningham
  • The trap / Clay Fisher
  • A day in town / Ernest Haycox
  • The ballad of William Sycamore (l790-1871) / Stephen Vincent Benet
  • The leader of the people / John Steinbeck
  • The buffalo singer / William Brandon.

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