Part one : The romantic horizon
The view from Peale's museum
George Catlin : saving the memory of a vanishing race
The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Eastman
European science and the noble savage
The mountain man : a fair likeness
Part two : The golden land
Destiny and democracy
Shattering the rim of Christendom
Picturing manifest destiny
The great reconnaissance
Overland to an empire : dream, nightmare and reality
The Eldorado vision
Epilogue in San Francisco
Part three : Images of glory
Bierstadt's mighty mountains
The wonders of Yosemite
Artist and photographer in wonderland
The grandest canyon of them all
Images of progress
Episodes of glory
- Views of tragedy
The resurrection of the romantic red man
Part four : The wild riders
Frederic Remington : no teacup tragedies
C.M. Russell : the cowboy genius
Part five : Play the legend
The American scout triumphant
Cowboys and cameramen
Pictures tell the story
Cowboys create history
Westerns make history
Part six : Other voice, other wests
Escape to Taos
Left bank of the Rio Hondo
What have you done with your land?
The Indian renaissance
Montezuma's return
The transcendent West of Georgia O'Keeffe.