• Acknowledgments
• introduction
• The American West and U.S. National Culture
• rough riding across america
• Mythologizing the West, Constructing the Nation
• reclaiming the frontier
• Oscar Micheaux as Black Turnerian
• recasting the west
• Frontier Identity and African American Self-Publication
• the making of americans
• Assimilation and Mormon Literature of the Mid-Twentieth Century
• buffalo bill’s object lessons
• Native American Survivance in the Arena
• conclusion
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index
