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""A model of intensive scholarship in a very limited area, presented in a graceful and attractive way.""--Nebraska History ""Presents an account that nicely reveals Whitman's compulsive mythologizing.""--American Studies ""Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt is a carefully researched, smoothly-written, and handsomely-printed reconstruction of a misunderstood and generally neglected part of the great poet's life.""--Western American Literature ""A charming account of the poet's 1879-1880 journey through Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.""--The Markham Review

"""A model of intensive scholarship in a very limited area, presented in a graceful and attractive way.""--Nebraska History ""Presents an account that nicely reveals Whitman's compulsive mythologizing.""--American Studies ""Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt is a carefully researched, smoothly-written, and handsomely-printed reconstruction of a misunderstood and generally neglected part of the great poet's life.""--Western American Literature ""A charming account of the poet's 1879-1880 journey through Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.""--The Markham Review"

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Walter H. Eitner is professor of English at Kansas State University, where he teaches early American literature and nineteenth-century American poetry, and directs seminars on Whitman.

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