The American Frontier: The myth and the reality of the West

The literature of the open country — pioneers and prospectors, the wild and the settled, from the writers who turned the frontier into legend.

In this collection

• A Wicked Woman
• The Prince and the Pauper, Part 9
• A Tramp Abroad, Volume 7
• Speech on the Weather
• From the 'London Times' of 1904
• The Turning-Point of my Life
• Nam-Bok the Unveracious
• Harold Frederic
• The Killing of Julius Caesar "Localized"
• Here and There
• The Jumping Frog
• Coming, Aphrodite!
• In Yeddo Bay
• The Great Revolution in Pitcairn
• The Turtles of Tasman
• Roughing it, Part 4
• Tom Sawyer, Detective
• Extract from Adam's Diary
• The Pentecost of Calamity
• Concerning Tobacco
• A Likeness
• Huckleberry Finn, Part 6
• When Alice Told her Soul
• Yellow Handkerchief
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