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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface: A Conference in Reno | |
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| Introduction: A Wilde Wesste | |
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| A Brief History of Wild | |
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| The Prehuman West | |
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| Native Nature | |
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| From the 1530s to the 1840s: The West as Waste and Promised Land | |
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| Prelude and Overview | |
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| Conquistadors and Colonizers: The Spanish Encounter with Unbridled Wilderness | |
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| The Antipode of Paradise: William Bradford and the Hatred of Wilderness | |
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| Ravage through the Garden: The Wild according to Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Crockett | |
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| Mountain Men and Other Explorers: The Vanguard of Western Exploitation | |
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| Inventing the Indian: The Noble Savage | |
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| Trails and Trials: The Inroads of Commerce | |
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| From the 1840s to the 1890s: The West as Frontier | |
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| Prelude and Overview | |
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| Settlement and Its Discontents | |
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| To California Go: The Thar in Them Thar Hills | |
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| Reinventing the Indian: The Red Devil | |
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| An Animal Holocaust: Wildlife Management in the Old West | |
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| In without Knocking: The Cowboy as Wild Man | |
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| Romancing the Gun: Outlaws and Man-Killers in Helldorado | |
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| (En)closing the Frontier | |
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| From the 1890s to the 1960s: The West as Region | |
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| Prelude and Overview | |
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| Ending the Indian: Civilization (f)or Extinction | |
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| Thou Art Lost and Gone Forever: Postfrontier Anxiety and the Recall of the Wild | |
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| Long Live the Weeds and the Wilderness Yet: Preserving the West | |
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| Wild West Shows, Rodeos, and Dude Ranches: Wildness as Specious Spectacle, Ritual Reenactment, and Tenderfoot Travesty | |
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| Dust Bowl: The Great American Desert with a Vengeance | |
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| Re-imagining the Wildness: Modern Mediations | |
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| Tripping the Light Dialectic: More Modern Mediations | |
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| Derricks, Dams, Bombs, and Such: A Walk on the Dark Side of the West | |
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| Sprawling into Western Emptiness: The Metropolitan Frontier, Suburban Borderlands, Misbegotten Middle Landscapes | |
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| From the 1960s to the Present: The West as Postregion | |
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| Prelude and Overview | |
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| A Sewer Runs through It | |
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| Where the Wild Things Aren't: The Last of the Breed | |
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| McWilderness: Disneyfying the Frontier | |
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| The Computer in the Cabin: Unsettling the Nouveau West | |
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| Wild(e) Style: Ralphlaurenizing the Range | |
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| Once in the Saddle I Used to Go Gay: Redoing Rodeo | |
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| Las Vegas: Ambiguous Oasis | |
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| Weird Weird West: Roswell and Other Landing Sites | |
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| The Last Best Craze: Madness in Montana | |
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| Little Hassle on the Prairie: The Issue of Wise (Non)use | |
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| Beyond John Wayne: Bewildering Westerns and Wild Wild Texts | |
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| Way Out Walden: Rewriting Western Nature | |
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| The Wild Woman in the Outback: Postregional Cowgirls | |
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| The Return of the Native: Reclaiming Identities | |
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| Break on Through to the Other Side: The Postmodern Frontier Imperative | |
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| Wildfire: A Taste of Authenticity | |
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| Hunger for the Wild: Finding a True Western Heritage | |
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| Fear and Loathing in Santa Fe: Meatspace or Virtual Reality? | |
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| Conclusion: Some New Vision: Resolving the Western Paradox | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |