Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Western unions
- 2 Turner's rhetorical frontier
- 3 Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions
- 4 Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions
- 5 Unwedded West: Cather's divides
- 6 Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography
- 7 Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Western unions
- 2 Turner's rhetorical frontier
- 3 Marrying for race and nation: Wister's omniscience and omissions
- 4 Polygamy and empire: Grey's distinctions
- 5 Unwedded West: Cather's divides
- 6 Accident and destiny: Fitzgerald's fantastic geography
- 7 Promises and betrayals: Joan Didion and Wallace Stegner
- Afterword
- Notes
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002