02968cam a2200421 4500 2796841878 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780700630882 0700630880 B0D6GQGLFG Amazon 2fb18264-7794-4ae7-a0d0-0d1d55d39f82 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10215119 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Eitner, Walter H. Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt [Bridges eBook]. University Press of Kansas, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Walt Whitman in the Rockies. Walt Whitman in Denver. Walt Whitman in Kansas. Walt Whitman's travels. Specimen Days. John W Forney. WW Reitzel. JMW Geist. EK Martin. HTML:<p>In 1879, when Walt Whitman was sixty, he made a trip to the West—first to Kansas to attend the quarter-centennial 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 <i>Specimen Days</i>.</p> <p>This study in part constitutes a criticism of the sections of <i>Specimen Days</i> 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 <i>Specimen Days</i>—are fully on record. This account also shows Whitman very much his own press agent, engaging in a wide range of self-promoting 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.</p> <p><i>Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.</i></p>. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. History. Travel. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2fb18264-7794-4ae7-a0d0-0d1d55d39f82&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2fb18264-7794-4ae7-a0d0-0d1d55d39f82&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)