The West of the imagination

PART ONE - THE ROMANTIC HORIZON

The view from Peale's Museum

George Catlin: Saving the memory of a vanishing race

European science and the noble savage

The vogue for galleries and compendia: Stanley, Kane, and Easman

"In all their savage glory"

The mountain man: a fair likeness

Painting the perils of the West

Currier and Ives and the West

PART TWO - THE GOLDEN LAND

Destiny and democracy - Shattering the rim of Christendom

Picturing Manifest Destiny

The great reconnaissance

Overland to an empire: dream, nightmare and reality

The El Dorado vision

Dreaming in San Francisco

PART THREE - IMAGES OF GLORY

Bierstadt's mighty mountains

The wonders of Yosemite

Artist and photographer in wonderland

The grandest canyon of them all

Images of progress

Episodes of glory

- Views of tragedy

The resurrection of the vanishing American.

PART FOUR - THE WILD RIDERS

Frederic Remington: no teacup tragedies

C.M. Russell: the cowboy genius

PART FIVE - PLAY THE LEGEND

The American scout triumphant

Cowboys and cameramen

Pictures tell the story

Cowboys create history

Westerns make history

PART SIX - OTHER VOICES, OTHER WESTS

The mysterious artist of the West

Escape to Taos

Left Bank of the Rio Hondo

What have you done with your land?

The Indian renaissance

Montezuma's return

The transcendent West of Georgia O'Keeffe

The West of Jackson Pollock

Photographing the postmodern West

From the Old West to the New West: A paradox of perception

We follow the sun: temples and tumuli in the Western landscape.