Introduction : the West, Westerns, and American character / John E. O'Connor and Peter C. Rollins
The new Western history in 1931 : RKo and the challenge of Cimarron / J.E. Smyth
Tradition, parody, and adaptation : Jed Buell's unconventional West / Cynthia J. Miller
The Lone Ranger : adult legacies of a juvenile Western / John Shelton Lawrence
Wee Willie Winkie goes West : the influence of the British Empire genre on Ford's cavalry trilogy / Kathleen A. McDonough
Beyond the river : women and the role of the feminine in Howard Hawks's Red River / John Parris Springer
The "ache for home" : assimilation and separatism in Anthony Mann's Devil's doorway / Joanna Hearne
Giant helps America recognize the cost of discrimination : a lesson of World War II / Monique James Baxter
Rewriting High noon : transformations in American popular political culture during the Cold War, 1952-1968 / Matthew J. Costello
Almost angels, almost feminists : women in the professionals / Winona Howe
Cowboys and comedy : the simultaneous deconstruction and reinforcement of generic conventions in the Western parody / Matthew R. Turner
Historical discourse and American identity in Westerns since the Reagan era / Alexandra Keller
Challenging legends, complicating border lines : the concept of "frontera" in John Sayles's Lone star / Kimberly Sultze
Turner Network Television's made-for-TV Western films : engaging audiences through genre and themes / David Pierson.