From Leatherstocking to Rocketman : Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow Reconsidered
Nathaniel Hawthorne : "The Canterbury Pilgrims" ; "Roger Malvin's Burial" ; "Alice Doane's Appeal" ; "The Great Carbuncle" ; The Scarlet Letter
Herman Melville : Israel Potter
Henry David Thoreau : "Walking"
Walt Whitman : "The Half-breed : A Tale of the Western Frontier" ; Leaves of Grass
Mark Twain : Roughing It reconsidered
The literary Western : Owen Wister, The Virginian ; Walter van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-bow Incident ; Thomas Berger, Little Big Man ; E. L. Doctorow, Welcome to Hard Times
The popular Western : Zane Grey, Riders of the Purple Sage ; Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Paso Por Aqui ; Max Brand, Destry Rides Again ; George G. Gilman, The Killing Claim ; The new Western : Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove ; Anything for Billy.
