Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

1. Diverse Perspectives in Silent Westerns: Landscape, Morality, and the Native American

2. Not at Home on the Range: Women against the Frontier in The Wind

3. “He Went That-Away”: The Comic Western and Ruggles of Red Gap

4. Landscape and Standard-Setting in the 1930s Western: The Big Trail and Stagecoach

5. Indian-Fighting, Nation-Building, and Homesteading in the A-Western: Northwest Passage and The Westerner

6. Howard Hawks and John Wayne: Red River and El Dorado

7. The Postwar Psychological Western (1946-1956): My Darling Clementine to Jubal

8. John Ford's Later Masterpieces: The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

9. The Existential and Revisionist Western: Comanche Station to The Wild Bunch and Beyond

10. Eastwood and the American Western: High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Unforgiven

11. Coda: From Lonesome Dove (1989) to Cowboys and Aliens (2011)

Notes

Bibliography

Index