The winning of the west : Theodore Roosevelt's frontier thesis, 1880-1900

The White city and the wild west : Buffalo Bill and the mythic space of American history, 1880-1917

Mob, tribe, and regiment : modernizaiton as militarization, 1883-1902

Mythologies of resistance : outlaws, detectives, and dime-novel populism, 1873-1903

Aristocracy of violence : virility, vigilante politics, and red-blooded fiction, 1895-1910

From the open range to the mean streets : myth and formula fiction, 1910-1940

Formulas on film : myth and genre in the silent movie, 1903-1926

The studio system, the depression, and the eclipse of the western, 1930-1938

The western is American history, 1939-1941

Last stands and lost patrols : the western and the war film, 1940-1948

Studies in red and white : cavalry, Indians and Cold War ideology, 1946-1954

Killer elite : the cult of the gunfighter, 1950-1953

Imagining Third World revolutions : the "Zapata problem" and the counterinsurgency scenario, 1952-1954

Gunfighters and Green Berets : imagining the counterinsurgency warrior, 1956-1960

Conquering new frontiers : John Kennedy, John Wayne, and the myth of heroic leadership, 1960-1968

Attrition : the big unit war, the riots, and the counterinsurgency western, 1965-1968

Cross-over point : the Mylai Massacre, The Wild Bunch, and the demoralization of America, 1969-1972

Conclusion : The crisis of public myth.