Vanishing Americans : racial and ethnic issues in the interpretation and context of post-war 'pro-Indian' westerns / Steve Neale -- Photographing the Indian / Edward Buscombe -- The professional western : south of the border / Noël Carroll -- Wider horizons : Douglas Fairbanks and nostalgic primitivism / Gaylyn Studlar -- 'Our country'/whose country? The 'Americanisation' project of early westerns / Richard Abel -- Dixie cowboys and blue yodels : the strange history of the singing cowboy / Peter Stanfield -- 'Sixty million viewers can't be wrong' : the rise and fall of the television western / William Boddy -- Finding a new Heimat in the wild west : Karl May and the German western of the 1960's / Tassilo Schneider -- John Ford and Monument Valley / Jean-Louis Leutrat and Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues -- Magazine advertising and the western / Colin McArthur -- The fantasy of authenticity in western costume / Jane Marie Gaines and Charlotte Cornelia Herzog -- The new western American historiography and the emergence of the new American westerns / Rick Worland and Edward Countryman -- The twelve Custers, or, video history / Roberta E. Pearson.