Ride, Boldly Ride: The Evolution of the American Western Book

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword

Introduction

1. Diverse Perspectives in Silent Westerns: Landscape, Morality, and the Native American
2. Not at Home on the Range: Women against the Frontier in The Wind
3. "He Went That-Away": The Comic Western and Ruggles of Red Gap
4. Landscape and Standard-Setting in the 1930s Western: The Big Trail and Stagecoach
5.
Indian- Fighting, Nation-Building, and Homesteading in the A-Western: Northwest Passage and The Westerner
6. Howard Hawks and John Wayne: Red River and El Dorado
7. The Postwar Psychological Western (1946- 1956): My Darling Clementine to Jubal
8. John Ford's Later Masterpieces: The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
9. The Existential and Revisionist Western: Comanche Station to The Wild Bunch and Beyond
10. Eastwood and the American Western: High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven
11. Coda: From Lonesome Dove (1989) to Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

Notes Bibliography
Index