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Preface to the Paperhack Edition | |
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Myth Is the Language of Historical Memory | |
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Exposition: The Frontier as Myth and Ideology | |
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Myth and Historical Memory | |
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The Frontier Myth as a Theory of Development | |
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The Language of the Frontier Myth | |
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Regeneration Through Violence: History as an Indian War, 1675-1820 | |
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Ideology and Fiction: The Role of Cooper | |
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Metropolis vs. Frontier | |
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The Backwash of a Closing Frontier: Industrialization and the Hiatus of Expansion, 1820-1845 | |
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Utopia/Dystopia: Plantation, Factory, and City, 1820-1845 | |
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Myth of a New Frontier: Renewal and Breakdown, 1845-1850 | |
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A Choice of Frontiers: Texas, Mexico, and the Far West, 1835-1850 | |
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The Myth That Wasn't: Literary Responses to the Mexican War, 1847-1850 | |
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The Railroad Frontier, 1850-1860 | |
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Prophecy of the Iron Horse | |
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The Ideology of Race Conflict, 1848-1858 | |
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The Inversion of the Frontier Hero: William Walker and John Brown, 1855-1860 | |
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Toward the Last Frontier, 1860-1876 | |
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Regimentation and Reconstruction: The Emergence of a Managerial Ideology, 1860-1873 | |
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The Reconstruction of Class and Racial Symbolism, 1865-1876 | |
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The New El Dorado, 1874 | |
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The Boy General, 1839-1876 | |
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West Point, Wall Street, and the Wild West, 1839-1868 | |
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The Boy General Returns; or, Custer's Revenge, 1868-1876 | |
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The Last Stand as Ideological Object, 1876-1890 | |
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To the Last Man: Assembling the Last Stand Myth, 1876 | |
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The Indian War Comes Home: The Great Strike of 1877 | |
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Morgan's Last Stand: Literary Mythology and the Specter of Revolution, 1876-1890 | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |