Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West / Mary Lawlor.

Romantic Westernism and the example of Daniel Boone
Scenes of visionary enchantment: the Lewis and Clark narratives and the Leatherstocking novels
Frederick Jackson Turner, Edward S. Curtis, and the romance of disappearing
Importing naturalism to the American West
Frank Norris and the fiction of the lost West
Jack London and the politics of evolution
Stephen Crane's literary tourism
Willa Cather and the enchantment of difference
The strangeness of closure.