Recalling the wild : naturalism and the closing of the American West

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.