Former owner's name and purchase information penciled at the top edge of the first free endpaper has been partially erased but is still faintly visible, light corner crease to front cover. . Fourteen essays about the opening of America, by the author and a bevy of great American writers: Thoreau, Whitman, Melville, Twain, Henry James, Norman Rockwell, Hemingway, Wolfe, Fitzgerald and Faulkner. Reprint of a book originally published in 1957. First Bison Books printing. . Trade PB. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 245 pages. American Frontier. Nineteenth 19th Century