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Charles McLoughlin, frontispiece to Thomas J. Green's Journal of the Texian Expedition against Mier (1845). Courtesy of the Texas State Library

The American Elsewhere
Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Adventurous Impulse
  • The Occurrences Here Are Called Adventures
  • Seekers of the Fairer Phantom
  • The Charm in the Basilisk Eye of Danger
  • The Reckless Generation
  • The Amorphous Archetype
  • Eastern Reviews
2: The Storyteller Nation
  • Like a Coach at the Door
  • The Adventurelogue
  • A Wide Unexplored Sphere
  • Competing and Counter Narratives
  • A Shared Subjectivity
3: An Aristocracy of Buckskin
  • The Personal Revolution
  • Nature's Great Seal
  • Emblems of Peerlessness
  • Philosophy of Savage Life
  • The Picture of a Man
4: Sentimental Frontiers
  • The Angel in Him Moans
  • The Wanderer's Lament
  • The Erotic Elsewhere
  • The Graceful and Manly Mien
  • The Affections of Julius Rodman
5: The Companionship of Peril
  • The Expedition as Stagecraft
  • Campfire Narrations
  • Every Man His Own Captain
  • Mechanisms of Restraint
  • The Texas Ranger Mystique
6: Romantic Invaders
  • The Van in the March of Civilization
  • The Motley Aspect
  • Wilderness Explorers
  • Patriot-Warriors
  • Commerce of the Elsewhere
  • The Barbaric Yawp
Epilogue: Legacies of Adventurous Manhood
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  • Publications
    • Inventing Destiny
    • The Martial Imagination
    • More Zeal Than Discretion
    • East Peters Out
    • William G. Cheeney
    • Our Eyes Ached
    • Unquestionable Geographies >
      • Cartobibliography
    • Give Me My Skin
    • The Weary West
    • Anglo-Texan Adventurism
    • Patriot-Warrior Mystique
    • The Enduring People
    • Commerce of the Elsewhere
    • Are We Chimerical
    • Adventures & Recollections
  • Projects
    • This Empire Grim
  • Elsewheres Blog
  • Misc.