Introduction / John Richard Stephens --
Across Western plains and deserts / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Nevada's dead towns / John Muir --
Life in a ghost town / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A deadly insult / Washington Irving --
The human hunt / Washington Irving --
In the heart of Indian country / Washington Irving --
A Pawnee Knife Chief / James Fenimore Cooper --
The card of a Choctaw Chief / Charles Dickens --
The most beautiful part of America / Oscar Wilde --
The rowdies of the rivers / Ralph Waldo Emerson --
The rush for gold / Henry David Thoreau --
Cowboys, soldiers and several murders / Rudyard Kipling --
Stagecoach tales and Slade's untimely death / Mark Twain --
Calistoga stagecoach robberies / Robert Louis Stevenson --
A poet's Western journey / Walt Whitman --
All Gold Canyon / Jack London --
Twelve o'clock / Stephen Crane --
The Caballero's way / O. Henry --
Phantoms of peace / Zane Grey --
From far Dakota's canyons / Walt Whitman --
The revenge of Rain-in-the-Face / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
Two alike and a lady / Jules Verne --
A drift from Redwood Camp / Bret Harte --
The stranger / Amrose Bierce --
The horses of Bostil's Ford / Zane Grey --
The hiding of Black Bill / O. Henry.