Title: Rhetoric, experience, and identity in frontier writing and mapping of the Americas
Subjects: Discovery and exploration, Maps, Frontier and pioneer life, Historiography, Frontier thesis
Places: America, Mexico, United States
People: Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1496-1584), Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851), Washington Irving (1783-1859), William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859)