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2. Exploration, Trading, Trapping, Travel, and Early Fiction, 1780–1850 3. Worlds of Wonder and Ambition: Gold Rush California and the Culture of Mining Bonanzas in the North American West 4. The Literate West of Nineteenth-Century Periodicals 5. A History of American Women's Western Books, 1833–1928 6. Literary Cultures of the American Southwest 7. Literary Cartography of the Great Plains 8. The Literary Northern Rockies as The Last Best Place 9. North by Northwest: The Last Frontier of Western Literature 10. Chronotopes of the Asian American West 11. African American Literature and Culture and the American West 12. Mythical Frontiers: Manifest Destiny, Aztlán, and the Cosmic Race 13. Writing the Indigenous West 14. Framing Class in the Rural West: Cowboys, Double-wides, and McMansions 15. Postcolonial West 16. New West, Urban and Suburban Spaces, Postwest ... log in or subscribe to read full text