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Preface 1. The American West in the 1890s -- a Pivotal Decade 2. Founding Western History: Theodore Roosevelt and Frederick Jackson Turner 3. Buffalo Bill's Wild West and the Codification of the Western 4. Western Literature from The Virginian to Shane 5. Western Film from Silent to Noir 6. The Western and the Cold War: the Gunfighter, Heroic Leadership and Political Culture 7. New Western Perspectives: History and Literature 8. The Western and Political Culture 1960--1992: Revisions of Shane 9. Wanted Dead or Alive: 9/11 and the American Western Bibliography Index