附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index.
1. Prospects, limitations and a sense of regional place : an introduction -- 2. Frederick Jackson Turner : frontier as symbol -- 3. The tempered romanticism of John Muir -- 4. The West as apotheosis -- 5. The closed frontier and American tragedy -- 6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : barriers and boundaries -- 7. Ole Rölvaag and the immigrant promise denied -- 8. California, Nathanael West and the journey's end -- 9. The West and eschatology -- 10. Regionalism as Frontier synthesis -- 11. Three Montana regionalists : Ivan Doig, James Welch, Norman Maclean -- 12. Home and the good life : conclusion.