To the Reader: An Outstretched Hand
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Together, through the Backcountry
1. Fools of Empire: A Morning Constitutional, or Blind Eyewitnesses in the Early Republics (H. H. Brackenridge’s Modern Chivalry and Alonso Carrió de la Vandera’s A Guide for Blind Travelers)
2. Dying Pastoral: The Power of Homology and Other Disappearances into the Open Range of Martín Fierro and The Searchers (and “Brokeback Mountain”)
3. The Size of Domesticity 1: Traveling Companions Flee from Cold War “Containment” in On the Road and The Motorcycle Diaries
4. The Size of Domesticity 2: Subcomandante Marcos’s On-the-Run Dispatches Repurpose Cold War Anxiety
5. Doesn’t He Ever Learn? Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son and the Weight of Knowledge, or a Second Chance for a Lonely Picaro
Notes
Works Cited
Index