Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Diverse Perspectives in Silent Westerns: Landscape, Morality, and the Native American 9
8. 2. Not at Home on the Range: Women against the Frontier in The Wind 38
9. 3. “He Went That- Away”: The Comic Western and Ruggles of Red Gap 59
10. 4. Landscape and Standard- Setting in the 1930s Western: The Big Trail and Stagecoach 79
11. 5. Indian- Fighting, Nation- Building, and Homesteading in the A-Western: Northwest Passage and The Westerner 101
12. 6. Howard Hawks and John Wayne: Red River and El Dorado 128
13. 7. The Postwar Psychological Western (1946– 1956): My Darling Clementine to Jubal 156
14. 8. John Ford’s Later Masterpieces: The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance 185
15. 9. The Existential and Revisionist Western: Comanche Station to The Wild Bunch and Beyond 216
16. 10. Eastwood and the American Western: High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven 238
17. 11. Coda: From Lonesome Dove (1989) to Cowboys and Aliens (2011) 269
18. Notes 281
19. Bibliography 301
20. Index 311