A study of popular pritn and visual materials produced between 1865 and 1910 representing homoerotic and homosocial behavior among men of all ethnicities in the American West.
Ch. 1All-male queer interracial families in the wilderness : James Fenimore Cooper solves his progeny problem19Ch. 2Rehearsing and ridiculing marriage in The Virginian and other adventure tales41Ch. 3American satyriasis in Whitman, Harris, and Hartland71Ch. 4"Queer secrets" in men's clubs : humor, violence, and homoerotic elision in works by Mark Twain, Beret Harte, and Eugene Field95