Geographic personas: the passing of Clarence King --Lord of the limber tongue: the great Spanish land grant fraud and the Barony of Arizona -- The French Canadian cowboy: Branding Will James -- Making an Indian: the case of Sylvester Long -- L'Ouest...
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Geographic personas: the passing of Clarence King --Lord of the limber tongue: the great Spanish land grant fraud and the Barony of Arizona -- The French Canadian cowboy: Branding Will James -- Making an Indian: the case of Sylvester Long -- L'Ouest bohème: Willa Cather's transnational prairie -- A homeless snail: Yone Noguchi and Japanese self-invention -- The past is the biggest country of all: remembering Helena Modjeska -- Deutschland über alles: Germany's literary colonization of the U.S. frontier -- The problem of representation: Isadora Duncan sleeps with the Russian Navy -- Afterword: Burials and exhumations. "Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by one or more of three transformative factors -population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention during a great transitional period in the American West"--
