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| Preface to the Paperhack Edition | ||
| Pt. I | Myth Is the Language of Historical Memory | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Exposition: The Frontier as Myth and Ideology | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Myth and Historical Memory | 13 |
| Ch. 3 | The Frontier Myth as a Theory of Development | 33 |
| Pt. II | The Language of the Frontier Myth | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | Regeneration Through Violence: History as an Indian War, 1675-1820 | 51 |
| Ch. 5 | Ideology and Fiction: The Role of Cooper | 81 |
| Pt. III | Metropolis vs. Frontier | 107 |
| Ch. 6 | The Backwash of a Closing Frontier: Industrialization and the Hiatus of Expansion, 1820-1845 | 109 |
| Ch. 7 | Utopia/Dystopia: Plantation, Factory, and City, 1820-1845 | 138 |
| Pt. IV | Myth of a New Frontier: Renewal and Breakdown, 1845-1850 | 159 |
| Ch. 8 | A Choice of Frontiers: Texas, Mexico, and the Far West, 1835-1850 | 161 |
| Ch. 9 | The Myth That Wasn't: Literary Responses to the Mexican War, 1847-1850 | 191 |
| Pt. V | The Railroad Frontier, 1850-1860 | 209 |
| Ch. 10 | Prophecy of the Iron Horse | 211 |
| Ch. 11 | The Ideology of Race Conflict, 1848-1858 | 227 |
| Ch. 12 | The Inversion of the Frontier Hero: William Walker and John Brown, 1855-1860 | 242 |
| Pt. VI | Toward the Last Frontier, 1860-1876 | 279 |
| Ch. 13 | Regimentation and Reconstruction: The Emergence of a Managerial Ideology, 1860-1873 | 281 |
| Ch. 14 | The Reconstruction of Class and Racial Symbolism, 1865-1876 | 301 |
| Ch. 15 | The New El Dorado, 1874 | 325 |
| Pt. VII | The Boy General, 1839-1876 | 371 |
| Ch. 16 | West Point, Wall Street, and the Wild West, 1839-1868 | 373 |
| Ch. 17 | The Boy General Returns; or, Custer's Revenge, 1868-1876 | 398 |
| Pt. VIII | The Last Stand as Ideological Object, 1876-1890 | 433 |
| Ch. 18 | To the Last Man: Assembling the Last Stand Myth, 1876 | 435 |
| Ch. 19 | The Indian War Comes Home: The Great Strike of 1877 | 477 |
| Ch. 20 | Morgan's Last Stand: Literary Mythology and the Specter of Revolution, 1876-1890 | 499 |
| Notes | 533 | |
| Bibliography | 597 | |
| Index | 619 |
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Colleen Hurlburt
reviewed The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890 on July 19, 2014 The Fatal Environment: The Myth of the Frontier in the Age of Industrialization, 1800-1890
Slotkin's work is a must-read in this field for obvious reasons: his scope is incredible, and his thesis - even when you find yourself disagreeing with it in certain cases - is incredibly potent.
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