Table of Contents: “…Fremont and Charles Preuss ; Western dreams: Land of the free / Josiah Gregg; Land of regeneration / William Perkins; The West as waste / George McDuffie; Manifest destiny / William Gilpin; The West as Eden; Passage to India / Thomas Hart Benton ; Westward movement: metaphor and fact: A country of the mind / Henry David Thoreau; A country for the mindless / Henry David Thoreau ; A country of extremes: New senses, new joy / Walt Whitman; Waterfalls / Meriwether Lewis; Colter's Hell / Pierre-Jean de Smet; The prairie / James Fenimore Cooper; Illusions / Josiah Gregg; Mono Lake / Mark Twain; Tempests / Stephen Crane; Hail / Mari Sandoz; Grasshoppers / Everett Dick; Mojave Desert / John C. …”