Table of Contents
Author's Note 7
I Places and People
In the Bighorn Canyon 13
The Best Kind of Cowboy Hero 20
Montana's Carnegie Libraries 24
II Outlaws
An Urban Army 35
Fame and Bandits 42
The Trials of John L. Smith 48
III Economies
Camp Senia and Montana's Dude Ranching Heritage 55
Origins of the Beartooth Highway 62
Hope and Bacon 70
IV Communities
Mossmain: Montana's Near-Metropolis on the Plains 77
Community, Enriched by Formula 84
In the Garden of Eden 90
The Teenaged West 97
V Frontiers
Wister's versus Turner's Frontier 103
Disney's New Western Frontier 106
What We Do on Today's Frontier 109
VI The New West
All-Harley Cowboys 115
The "New West" Is an Old Concept 118
Ten Years and Counting on a Meaningless Phrase 121
VII Authenticity
A Permanent State of Not-Quite-Decay 125
Vacation to the 1830s 131
Clarence Mulford's Odd Western Journey 136
A Regular He-Man Horse 139
VIII Heroes
The Mountain Man Who Outshone His Legends 145
Resurrecting Haydie Yates 150
At the Little Bighorn 157
The Native Home of Governors on Horseback 165
Acknowledgements 171
Index 173
About the Author 176