He — far more than any of his contemporaries — helped to create a a compelling vision of the West through a combination of romantic adventure and gritty realism.

Mark Twain became an overnight sensation when his story “Outcasts of Poker Flat” was published in  the Overland Monthly.

John Oakhurst, The Dutchess, Mother Shipton, and Uncle Billy are characters in a story written by

During Twain’s life he worked as a

In “A White Heron,” where did Sylvia grow up?

This individual defined Realism as “Nothing more or nothing less than the truthful treatment of material.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s fiction shows that the real realtionship between men and women

This regionalist author wrote The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories.

On July 4, 1855, Walt Whitman sent twelve poems, self-published as a collection called Leaves of Grass to ________________________ .

Walt Whitman’s poety could best be described as conventional in rhyme, meter, and structure.