Cover -- The Conservative Aesthetic -- The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I Gentlemen of the West...
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Cover -- The Conservative Aesthetic -- The Conservative Aesthetic: Theodore Roosevelt, Popular Darwinism, and the American Literary West -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I Gentlemen of the West (1880-1884) -- Chapter 1 -- Roosevelt in the Badlands -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Wister Goes West -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Frederic Remington's Vanishing West -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- A Self-Made Man -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- Remington and the Art of Scientific Representation -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- Wister's Legal Education -- Notes -- Chapter 7 "Buffalo Bill" Cody and the Selling of the West -- Notes -- Part II The Early History of Conservatism (1689-1880) -- Chapter 8 -- The Nature of Freedom -- Notes -- Chapter 9 -- Emerson's Great Man Theory of History -- Notes -- Chapter 10 -- Darwin Comes to America -- Notes -- Chapter 11 -- The Redeemers, the Socialists, and Conservatism After the Civil War -- Notes -- Part III Selling a Darwinian West (1884-1890) -- Chapter 12 -- Equal to All Occasions -- Notes -- Chapter 13 -- Cody and the Queen -- Notes -- Chapter 14 -- The Cowboy of Dakota -- Notes -- Chapter 15 -- Remington's Great White West Notes -- Chapter 16 -- Natural Inequality and the Course of Progress -- Notes -- Chapter 17 -- The Ghost Dance -- Notes -- Part IV In Search of a Practical History (1890-1895) -- Chapter 18 -- The Johnson County War -- Notes -- Chapter 19 -- The World's Columbian Exposition -- Notes -- Chapter 20 -- The Boone and Crockett Club -- Notes -- Chapter 21 -- Environmental Conservation and Political Conservatism -- Notes -- Chapter 22 -- The Science of Western History -- Notes -- Chapter 23 -- A Practical Conservatism -- Notes -- Chapter 24 -- The Evolution of a Cowboy -- Notes -- Chapter 25 The Bronco Busters -- Notes -- Chapter 26 -- Progress, Populism, and the Lure of War -- Notes -- Part V Cuba and the New West (1896-1902) -- Chapter 27 -- The Rush of War -- Notes -- Chapter 28 -- The Cowboy Regiment Abroad -- Notes -- Chapter 29 -- Rewriting a Legacy -- Notes -- Chapter 30 -- The Virginian and the White House -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- About the Author "The Conservative Aesthetic explores a circle of western writers and artists that rose up around Theodore Roosevelt in the late nineteenth century. It makes the case that their unique alloy of popular Darwinism and western mythmaking represent an aesthetic component of American conservatism that has long been overlooked"--
