Distant horizon: documents from the nineteenth-century American West

The spirit and the myth.

Explorers and mountain men.

Farmers and townsfolk.

Bury me in a tree: the mining frontier.

The iron horse: the railroad in the American West.

The people and the response: Native Americans and the dominant culture.

On both sides of the tin badge.

Women of the American west.

Westerners of color.

The far-flung battle line: soldiers in the American west.

Cowboys and cowmen.