Front Cover -- About the Author -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Part One: Westerns (1973 -- 1977) -- Introduction (1973) -- 1 Politics, etc. and the Western -- 2 Heroes and Villains, Women and Children -- 3 Indians and Blacks -- 4 Landscape, Violence, Poker -- 5 The Post-Western -- Bibliography -- Afterword (1977) -- The Italian Western -- Television -- Cops and Vigilantes -- Baseball -- Children -- New Faces of 1885 -- Comedies -- Westworld -- The Missouri Breaks -- More Books -- Part Two: Westerns Revisited (2004) -- Introduction -- 1 Waiting for the End -- 2 Television -- 3 Comedies -- 4 The Italian Western -- 5 Westward the Women -- 6 Legends Re-examined -- The Alamo -- Wild Bill Hickok -- The James-Younger Gang -- Billy the Kid -- Tombstone and the Earps -- 7 The Modern West -- 8 Transpositions and Displacements -- 9 Native Americans -- 10 Eastwood Ho! -- 11 Two New Western Stars -- 12 Some Left-field Entries -- Latest Books -- Filmography -- Index of Films -- Index of Names.