Table of Contents Preface Author's Note One. James Fenimore Cooper delete delete"The Transformative Power of Landscape" Two. Mark Twain and Bret Harte delete delete"The West Undone" Three. Owen Wister delete delete"The Cult of Western Manliness" Four. Andy Adams and Jack London delete delete"The Lure of the Wild" Five. Willa Cather delete delete"Our Ántonia" Six. Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Luke Short delete delete"The Fabulist Phenomenon" Seven. Edna Ferber and Laura Ingalls Wilder delete delete"So Big, So Little" Eight.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark and A.B. Guthrie delete delete"From the ­Ox-Bow to the Big Sky" Nine. Jack Schaefer delete delete"A Few Good Riders" Ten. Edward Abbey and Charles Portis delete delete"The Defiant Ones" Eleven. Wallace Stegner delete delete"Explorations and Revolutions" Twelve. James A. Michener and Larry McMurtry delete delete"The Epic West" Thirteen.

Cormac McCarthy delete delete"No Man's Land" A Timeline of the Western Novel and Other Notable Works of the Frontier Chapter Notes Bibliography Index.