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| Dawn of the West | |
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| Out Where the West Begins | |
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| From the Great Plains to the Pacific | |
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| Crossing the Land Bridge | |
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| The Early Cultures | |
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| A Golden Age Dawns | |
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| The Empires of Mexico | |
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| Comes a Horseman | |
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| Enter the Spanish | |
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| Cortes the Killer | |
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| Seven Cities of Gold | |
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| The Journey of Coronado | |
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| Colonizing with Juan de Onate | |
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| In Old Santa Fe | |
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| When the West Was East | |
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| A French Scene | |
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| The British Are Coming | |
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| Powwowing with Powhatan | |
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| Meanwhile, Up North | |
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| Mayflower Moving | |
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| "I'll Take Manhattan" | |
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| Getting Acquainted: The Colonial Wars | |
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| New World Fallout from Europe's Constant Wars | |
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| The French and Indian War | |
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| The Conspiracy of Pontiac | |
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| Missions Accomplished | |
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| The Pueblo Revolt | |
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| Eyeing Texas | |
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| Massacre at San Saba | |
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| California, Here I Come | |
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| A Sense of Yuma | |
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| Time Running Out | |
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| Tales of the Old Northwest | |
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| Frontier Times | |
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| "Elbow Room!" Cried Daniel Boone | |
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| The Revolution Rides West | |
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| George Rogers Clark to the Rescue | |
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| Lord Dunmore's War | |
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| The Butler Did It | |
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| Treaties and Ordinances, Take One | |
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| Little Turtle, Miami Hurricane | |
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| I'm Just Mad About Anthony | |
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| The Battle of Fallen Timbers | |
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| Go West, Young Man | |
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| Across the Great Divide | |
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| Roll on Columbia, Roll on | |
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| Brainstorming with Thomas Jefferson | |
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| The Louisiana Purchase | |
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| The Lewis and Clark Expedition | |
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| The West's First Female Folk Hero | |
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| Shoshone Reunion | |
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| Sacagawea's Life After Lewis and Clark | |
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| Pike's Peek | |
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| Pike and the Treachery of Aaron Burr | |
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| The Great American Desert | |
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| Give Your Heart to the Hawks | |
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| The First Mountain Man | |
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| Astoria | |
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| Eastern War, Western Woes | |
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| Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal | |
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| The Santa Fe Trail | |
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| Bent's Fort | |
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| The Mountain Man Hall of Fame | |
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| Farewell to the Beaver Biz | |
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| Blazing the Trail of Tears | |
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| Go Down Tecumseh | |
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| Black Hawk's War | |
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| Old Hickory Gets Tough | |
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| The Indian Removal Act of 1830 | |
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| The Five Civilized Tribes | |
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| End of the Trail, Part One | |
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| Davy Crockett and the Alamo | |
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| King of the Wild Frontier | |
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| Moses in the Promised Land | |
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| Stephen Austin Takes Over | |
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| Incidents at Anahuac | |
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| The Gonzales Cannon | |
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| A Ragtag Revolution | |
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| Bowie Bows onto the Stage | |
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| Preparing for War | |
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| The First Battle of the Alamo | |
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| Remembering the Alamo | |
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| Slaughter at Goliad | |
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| Reckoning at San Jacinto | |
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| The Birth of a New Republic | |
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| The Way West | |
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| O, Pioneers! | |
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| The First to Oregon | |
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| A Major Factor | |
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| On a Mission from God | |
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| The Whitman Disaster | |
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| Conquest by Disease | |
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| Bibles West | |
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| Pathfinding with Fremont | |
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| Oregon Fever | |
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| Wagon Trains | |
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| Dining With the Donners | |
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| Francis Parkman and The Oregon Trail | |
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| When the Saints Go Marching West | |
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| Westward Ho! | |
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| The Mexican War | |
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| "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" | |
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| Mexican Politics as Usual | |
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| Stephen Kearny and the "Army of the West" | |
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| The Bear Flag Revolt | |
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| Back to Mexico | |
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| The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | |
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| Gold! | |
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| In Old California | |
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| Mr. Sutter's Mill | |
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| Gold Fever | |
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| Kung Fu Fortune Hunting | |
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| Levi Strauss's Personal Money-Makers | |
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| San Francisco '49ers | |
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| Express Yourself | |
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| Dig This | |
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| After the Gold Rush | |
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| The Big Country | |
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| High Plains Drifting | |
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| The Treaty at Fort Laramie | |
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| The Grattan Fight | |
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| The Battle of Blue Water | |
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| The Early Years of Crazy Horse | |
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| The Mountain Meadows Massacre | |
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| The Most Famous Missing Child in the West | |
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| A Failure to Communicate | |
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| The Stage, the Horse, and the Wire | |
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| Stagecoach! | |
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| The Overland Mail | |
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| Pikes Peak or Bust | |
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| The Pony Express | |
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| A Legend in Black and Red Ink | |
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| Going West, Young Man, Going West | |
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| How the West Was Wired | |
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| The War Goes West | |
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| Slavery Legislation Before the War | |
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| The Kansas-Nebraska Act | |
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| Bleeding Kansas | |
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| The Texas Secession | |
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| Lincoln Logs On | |
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| Show Me the War | |
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| The Battle of Pea Ridge | |
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| The Gettysburg of the West | |
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| Minnesota Uprising | |
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| A Raider Called Quantrill | |
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| Bloody Bill Anderson | |
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| The First Battle of Adobe Walls | |
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| Massacre at Sand Creek | |
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| Peace at Appomattox | |
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| Red Cloud's War and More | |
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| The Comstock Lode | |
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| Blazing the Bozeman Trail | |
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| The Wrath of Red Cloud | |
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| Winds of Change | |
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| The Buffalo Soldiers | |
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| The Making of George Armstrong Custer | |
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| The Iron Horse | |
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| All Aboard! | |
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| Hey Judah | |
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| Tales of the Central Pacific | |
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| Tales of the Union Pacific | |
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| Ten Miles in a Day | |
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| The Driving of the Golden Spike | |
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| The Trains Kept A-Rollin' | |
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| Little Houses on the Prairie | |
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| Y'all Come! | |
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| Tall Tales from High Timber Country | |
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| Meeker's Folly | |
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| Esther's Tea Party | |
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| The Grand Old Woman of Oregon | |
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| Little Author on the Prairie | |
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| Settling Down | |
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| Back in the Saddle | |
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| Ride 'Em Cowboy | |
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| The First Cowboys | |
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| Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys | |
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| The Log of a Cowboy | |
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| The Legend of Pecos Bill | |
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| Cow Towns | |
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| Cattle Barons and Baronesses | |
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| John B. Invents the Stetson | |
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| Black Cowboys | |
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| Writing the West with Charles Siringo | |
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| The Sheepherders | |
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| Don't Fence Me In | |
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| The Last Roundup | |
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| Wanted Dead or Alive | |
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| The Bandit Joaquin | |
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| The First Train Robbers | |
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| Frank and Jesse, the Early Years | |
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| Youngers! | |
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| Black Bart | |
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| John Wesley Hardin | |
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| Belle Starr | |
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| Sam Bass | |
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| The Outlaw Trail | |
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| Have Gun, Will Travel | |
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| Wild Bill Hickok | |
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| Calamity Jane | |
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| Bat Masterson | |
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| Wyatt Earp | |
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| The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca | |
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| Ben Thompson | |
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| The Gambling Jones | |
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| Doc Holliday | |
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| Luke Short | |
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| The Hour of the Gun | |
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| Raw Law, Rough Justice | |
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| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | |
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers | |
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| The Pinkertons | |
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| Rocky Mountain Detectives | |
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| The Hanging Judge | |
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| Fastest Attorney in the West | |
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| The Last of the West's Great Sheriffs | |
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| The Letter of the Law | |
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| Painting the Picture | |
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| Down the Colorado | |
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| The Palette of Yellowstone | |
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| William Henry Jackson Exposes the West | |
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| The Soul of Thomas Moran | |
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| The Landscape of Albert Bierstadt | |
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| Travel Writing in the West | |
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| The Art of Frederic Remington | |
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| Charles M. Russell: Cowboy with a Paintbrush | |
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| The Artistic Trail | |
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| End of the Trail | |
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| The Moon When the Leaves Fall Off | |
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| The Modoc War | |
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| Where the Buffalo Roam | |
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| The Orator of the Plains | |
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| Quanah Parker, Last Chief of the Comanche | |
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| Paha Sapa | |
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| Custer on the Little Bighorn | |
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| Sitting Bull | |
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| Ready for War | |
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| Battle of the Powder River | |
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| Custer Joins the Campaign | |
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| Sitting Bull's Dream | |
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| Battle on the Rosebud | |
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| In Search of the Little Bighorn | |
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| Read All About It | |
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| Mrs. Custer Carries On | |
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| Who Killed Custer? | |
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| The End of Black Hills Resistance | |
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| Apache Blood | |
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| Mangas Coloradas | |
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| Cochise Carries the Struggle Forward | |
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| In the Days of Victorio | |
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| Geronimo | |
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| Apache Twilight | |
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| I Will Fight No More Forever | |
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| The Battle of Slim Buttes | |
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| Get Crazy Horse | |
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| The Ordeal of Chief Joseph | |
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| Cheyenne Autumn | |
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| The Ghost Dance | |
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| Big Foot Reacts | |
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| The Sun Sinks Slowly | |
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| The Saga of Billy the Kid | |
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| Manhattan Transfer | |
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| Silver City Teen | |
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| First Blood | |
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| Riding with Bill Bonney | |
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| Lincoln County | |
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| Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid | |
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| Riding Again | |
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| Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die | |
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| Finding a Tombstone | |
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| Johnny Ringo | |
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| Here Come the Earps | |
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| Old Man Clanton | |
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| Somebody Robbed the Tombstone Stage | |
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| The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral | |
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| Doc's Last Ride | |
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| The Shadow of Wyatt | |
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| Tombstone's Epitaph | |
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| They Went Thattaway | |
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| The Unassigned Lands | |
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| North to Alaska | |
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| The Dalton Gang | |
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| The Doolin Gang | |
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| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | |
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| I, Tom Horn | |
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| Riding into the Sunset | |
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| Buffalo Bill Cody | |
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| Annie Get Your Gun | |
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| Passing the Torch | |
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| Where Have All the Cowboys Gone? | |
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| Native Sons and Daughters | |
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| Happy Trails | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Timeline of the West | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Western Lingo Glossary | |
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| Index | |