Introduction: Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction -- 1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness: Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow" -- 2. Pastoralism and enclosure: Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass" -- 3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies: Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels -- 4. Patches of green and fields of dust: Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl" -- 5. Healing the wounds of history: Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water" -- Epilogue: Pastoral art and the beautiful
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American fiction-- Great Plains-- History and criticism
Pastoral literature, American-- History and criticism