1Preface
19Chapter 18: Stagecoaches, Freighting
2Chapter 1: A Declaration
20Chapter 19: Pony Express
3Chapter 2: Interpreters of the Land
21Chapter 20: Surge of Life in the West
4Chapter 3: General Helps
22Chapter 21: Range Life: Cowboys, Cattle, Sheep
5Chapter 4: Indian Culture; Pueblos and Navajos
23Chapter 22: Cowboy Songs and Other Ballads
6Chapter 5: Apaches, Comanches, and Other Plains Indians
24Chapter 23: Horses: Mustangs and Cow Ponies
7Chapter 6: Spanish-Mexican Strains
25Chapter 24: The Bad Man Tradition
8Chapter 7: Flavor of France
26Chapter 25: Mining and Oil
9Chapter 8: Backwoods Life and Humor
27Chapter 26: Nature; Wild Life; Naturalists
10Chapter 9: How the Early Settlers Lived
28Chapter 27: Buffaloes and Buffalo Hunters
11Chapter 10: Fighting Texians
29Chapter 28: Bears and Bear Hunters
12Chapter 11: Texas Rangers
30Chapter 29: Coyotes, Lobos, and Panthers
13Chapter 12: Women Pioneers
31Chapter 30: Birds and Wild Flowers
14Chapter 13: Circuit Riders and Missionaries
32Chapter 31: Negro Folk Songs and Tales
15Chapters 14: Lawyers, Politicians, J. P.'s
33Chapter 32: Fiction—Including Folk Tales
16Chapter 15: Pioneer Doctors
34Chapter 33: Poetry and Drama
17Chapter 16: Mountain Men
35Chapter 34: Miscellaneous Interpreters and Institutions
18Chapter 17: Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Trail
36Chapter 35: Subjects for Themes
