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Th e Frontier Club 00_Bold_Prelims.indd i 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM This page intentionally left blank Th e Frontier Club Popular Westerns and Cultural Power, 1880–1924 CHRISTINE BOLD 1 00_Bold_Prelims.indd iii 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offi ces in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Th ailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 © Oxford University Press 2013 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitt ed, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitt ed by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bold, Christine, 1955– Th e frontier club : popular westerns and cultural power, 1880–1924 / Christine Bold. p. cm. ISBN 978–0–19–973179–4—ISBN 978–0–19–991302–2 1. American literature—West (U.S.)— History and criticism. 2. Western stories—History and criticism. 3. Frontier and pioneer life in literature. 4. West (U.S.)—In literature. I. Title. PS271.B65 2013 810.9′3278—dc23 2012024725 ISBN 978–0–19–973179–4 978–0–19–991302–2 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 00_Bold_Prelims.indd iv 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM To Ric again 00_Bold_Prelims.indd v 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS List of Illustrations x Acknowledgments x iii Preface xvii Th e Frontier Club Western: An Introduction 1 FRONTIER CLUBMEN 2 VIGILANTE CLUBMEN 4 THE VIRGINIAN 6 CODA 12 1. Boone and Crockett Writers 14 THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB, 1893 15 BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUBMEN 18 Th eodore Roosevelt 19 George Bird Grinnell 22 Owen Wister 27 Winthrop Chanler 29 Madison Grant 31 Henry Cabot Lodge 32 Caspar Whitney 33 Frederic Remington 35 THE BOOKS OF THE BOONE AND CROCKETT CLUB 37 Shaping the Voice 37 Clearing the Enclave 40 Writing the Frontier Club Western 43 Lobbying the Federal Government 48 CONCLUSION 53 vii 00_Bold_Prelims.indd vii 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM viii Contents 2. Cowboys and Publishers 55 A VERY PROPER PHILADELPHIAN 57 Frontier Club Neurasthenia 58 A Man’s Gott a Do . . . 61 ARISTOCRA TS OUT WEST 6 5 Frontier Club Investments 66 Th e Cheyenne Club 68 Cowboys and Vigilantes 73 SHOWDOWN ON PUBLISHERS’ ROW 80 Frontier Club Investments 80 Th e Frontier Club Western and the Literary Marketplace 82 THE FRONTIER CLUB VS. ALKA LI IKE 9 0 CONCLUSION 94 3. Women in the Frontier Club 96 FRONTIER CLUB WOMEN AND FAMILIES 97 THE WISTER WOMEN 105 MOLLY WISTER 111 WOMEN’S SPACE IN THE FRONTIER CLUB WESTERN 117 CONCLUSION 127 4. Jim Crow and the Western 131 WISTER: “WHITE FOR A HUNDRED YEARS” 133 ROOSEVELT’S ROUGH RIDERS 142 Th e Black Rough Riders 142 Whitening the Rough Rider 145 REMINGTON: WITH THE EYE OF THE MIND 152 BLACK ROUGH RIDERS REDUX 155 Tearing a Piece off the Flag 155 “Th ese cats was the original posse” 162 CONCLUSION 166 5. Immigrants and Indians 169 VANISHING ACTS 169 IMMIGRA TION RESTRICTION 173 Owen Wister 178 Madison Grant 181 Another Hank 185 00_Bold_Prelims.indd viii 11/23/2012 5:32:01 PM Contents ix AMERICAN INDIAN ASSIMILATION 188 George Bird Grinnell 191 Jack the Young Frontier Clubman 197 CONCLUSION 205 6. Outside the Frontier Club 207 PRINCESS CHINQUILLA 209 CHEEK BY JOWL 216 REWRITING 1902 223 CONCLUSION 231 Conclusion: Frontier Club Fingerprints 233 Notes 243 Works Cited 263 Index 283 00_Bold_Prelims.indd ix 11/23/2012 5:32:02 PM
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