Introduction / Amy L. Scott and Kathleen A. Brosnan
The wishful West / John M. Findlay
pt. 1. The metropolitan retreat to the eco-urban
Crafting the good life in Irvine, California / Stephanie Kolberg
Open-space politics in Boulder, Colorado / Amy L. Scott
Wilderburbs and Rocky Mountain development / Lincoln Bramwell
Middle-class migration and rural gentrification in western Montana / Rina Ghose
pt. 2. Tourism, memory, and Western urban identities
Urbanity and pastoralism in Napa tourism / Kathleen A. Brosnan
Family travel, national parks, and the Cold War West / Susan S. Rugh
Public art, memory, and mobility in 1920s New Mexico / Jeffrey C. Sanders
Reclaiming Cannery Row's industrial history / Connie Y. Chiang
Seattle's Pike Place Market / Judy Mattivi Morley
pt. 3. From cultural and geographic margins to urban centers
The making of San Francisco's queer urban scene / Nan Alamilla Boyd
San Francisco, Red power, and the emergence of an "Indian city" / Kent Blansett
Gay male rural-urban migration in the American West / Peter Boag.