Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt

by Walter H. Eitner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700631488
• ISBN13: 9780700631483
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"