Queer cowboys: and other erotic male friendships in nineteenth-century American literature

All-male queer interracial families in the wilderness: James Fenimore Cooper solves his progeny problem

Rehearsing and ridiculing marriage in The Virginian and other adventure tales

American satyriasis in Whitman, Harris, and Hartland

"Queer secrets" in men's clubs: humor, violence, and homoerotic elision in works by Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and Eugene Field.