This is the west
Edited by Robert West Howard
- New York Rand 1957
- 248 p.
What is the west? / Walter Prescott Webb -- Part 1. The land -- Robert West Howard -- Part 2. The setting / Mitzi Zipf -- Part III. The first westerners -- O.K. Armstrong -- Part IV. The fire builders / Bert Fireman -- Part V. The indians we fought / Reginald R. Stuart -- Apache electronics / Don Russell -- The doers and the doing -- Stanley Vestal -- The mountain men / Charles W. Towne -- The scouts / Ramon F. Adams -- The soldiers / Richard L. Evans and Kenneth S. Bennion -- Cowboys and herdsmen / Walter Havighurst -- Cookie / Alice Marriott -- The Mormons / Oren Arnold -- The sodbusters / James D. Horan -- The ladies / Wayne Gard -- The honkytonkers / Badger Clark -- The gummen / Richard Dunlop -- The lawmakers / Joseph Stocker -- Preachers and teachers / Colonel Edward N. Wentworth -- Saddlebag dogs / Howard R. Driggs -- The prospectors / William B. Edwards -- The tote -- Homer Croy -- Their critters / J.F. Weadock -- The toters / S. Omar Barker. Shootin' irons / The saga -- They built the saga / They lived the saga / The West today /
Collection of articles by experts on the spirit of the American West, with more than 50 illustrations from Western Americana.