Introduction: Biocultural change and literary pastoralism in Great Plains fiction
1. (Un)settling the Indian wilderness: Tribal pastoralism in Cooper's "The Prairie" and Welch's "Fools crow"
2. Pastoralism and enclosure: Marriage and illegitimate children on the range-farm frontier in Eaton's "Cattle" and Richter's "Sea of grass"
3. Harmonious fields and wild prairies: Transcendental pastoralism in Willa Cather's Nebraska novels
4. Patches of green and fields of dust: Dust Bowl pastoralism in Olsen's "Yonnondio" and Manfred's "The golden bowl"
5. Healing the wounds of history: Buffalo commons pastoralism in Proulx's "That old ace in the hole" and King's "Truth and bright water"
Epilogue: Pastoral art and the beautiful.
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Bad Land pastoralism in Great Plains fiction by Matthew J. C. Cella. ISBN 9781587299056. Published by University of Iowa Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
