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| Acknowledments | 25-12 |
| Tuska, Jon | General Introduction | 25-12 |
| PART ONE: THE EAST GOES WEST |
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| Twain, Mark | Jack Slade, Desperado (1872) | 25-12 |
| Crane, Stephen | A Man and Some Others (1897) | 25-12 |
| Remington, Frederic | A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop (1898) | 25-12 |
| Wister, Owen | Hank's Woman (1900) | 25-12 |
| PART TWO: WHERE WEST WAS WEST |
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| Johnson, Dorothy M. | A Man Called Horse (1953 | 25-12 |
| Cather, Willa | The Wild Land (1913) | 25-12 |
| Neihardt, John G. | The Last Thunder Song (1907) | 25-12 |
| Rhodes, Eugen Manlove | The Bird in the Bush (1917 | 25-12 |
| Haycox, Ernest | McQuestion Rides (1939) | 25-12 |
| PART THREE: THE WEST OF THE STORYTELLERS |
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| Grey, Zane | The Desert Crucible (1915) | 25-12 |
| Brand, Max | Wine on the Desert (1936) | 25-12 |
| L'Amour, Louis | War Party (1959) | 25-12 |
| Bellah, James Warner | Massacre (1947) | 25-12 |
| Short, Luke | Court Day (1939 | 25-12 |
| PART FOUR: THE WEST IN REVISION |
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| Kelton, Elmer | Desert Command (1980) | 25-12 |
| Henry, Will | Lapwai Winter (1966) | 25-12 |
| Capps, Benjamin | The Slaughter (1965) | 25-12 |
| Clark, Walter Van Tilburg | The Wind and the Snow of Winter (1944) | 25-12 |
| Evans, Max | Candles at the Bottom of the Pool (1973) | 25-12 |
| Tuska, Jon | Suggested Further Reading | 25-12 |
