03476oam 22006254a 450 991048201280332120250905110029.097807006021240700602127(CKB)5590000000429735(OCoLC)1227916133(MdBmJHUP)muse95532(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/93150(MiAaPQ)EBC7295344(Au-PeEL)EBL7295344(OCoLC)1431980652(Perlego)4266099(oapen)doab93150(ODN)ODN0010215119(EXLCZ)99559000000042973519990101d1981 uy 0undur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWalt Whitman's Western Jaunt1st ed.University Press of Kansas1981LawrenceRegents Press of Kansas1981©19811 online resource (xvi, 123 Seiten) : Illustrationen ;Includes index9780700631483 0700631488 9780700630882 0700630880 Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology and Itinerary -- 1. The Five Travelers -- 2. From Camden to Lawrence -- 3. Whitman and the Kansas Silver Wedding -- 4. Topeka and Westward to Denver -- 5. Denver and the Rockies -- 6. Heading Eastward -- 7. St. Louis -- 8. Back in Camden -- Notes -- Bibliographical Essay -- Index -- Back Cover.In 1879, when Walt Whitman was sixty, he made a trip to the West—first to Kansas to attend the quartercentennial celebration of Kansas settlement, then on to Denver and the Rockies. Biographers have only briefly reported this trip, if they have dealt with it at all; here for the first time is a thorough reconstruction of Whitman’s western experience. From his own extensive research in newspapers of the period, as well as from Whitman’s published daybooks and notebooks and his collected correspondence. Walter H. Eitner is able to piece together a well detailed itinerary, and to compare the record of the actual journey with Whitman’s imaginative account in Specimen Days.This study in part constitutes a criticism of the sections of Specimen Days dealing with the West by examining the ways in which Whitman reordered his experiences to have them support a bardic pose he wished to maintain. For the first time Whitman’s three journalist traveling companions—whom Whitman did not even mention in Specimen Days—are fully on record. This account also shows Whitman very much his own press agent, engaging in a wide range of selfpromoting activities such as writing his own interviews and sending back to the press in the East accounts of his whereabouts, his health, and his plans.History of the AmericasbicsscMittlerer WestengndReisebericht 1879Electronic books. History of the AmericasHistory of the Americas811/.3BEitner Walter H1025905Whitman WaltasnMdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910482012803321Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt2440000UNINA