, are a few of the subjects to be
derived from a study of his books. Or take a category like
"How the Early Settlers Lived." Pioneer food, transportation,
sociables, houses, neighborliness, loneliness, living on game
meat, etc., make subjects. Almost every subject listed below
will suggest either variations or associated subjects.
The Humor of the Southwest
Similes from Nature (Crockett is rich in them)
The Code of Individualism
The Code of the Range
Six-shooter Ethics
The Right to Kill
The Tradition of Cowboy Gallantry
(read Owen Wister's _The
Virginian_ and _A Journey in Search
of Christmas;_ also novels by
Eugene Manlove Rhodes)
Frontier Hospitality
Amusements (shooting matches,
tournaments, play parties, dances,
poker, horse races, quiltings,
house-raisings)
The Western Gambler (Bret Harte
and Alfred Henry Lewis have
idealized him in fiction; he might
be contrasted with the Mississippi
River gambler)
Indian Captives
The Age of Horse Culture (Spanish,
Indian, Anglo-American; the
horse was important enough to
any one of these classes to
warrant extended study)
The Cowboy's Horse
The Cowboy Myth (Mody Boat-
right is writing a book on the subject)
Evolution of the Frontier Criminal Lawyer
The Frontier Intellect in the Atomic Age
British Chroniclers of the West
Civilized Perspective in Writings on the Old West
The Indian in Fiction
Fictional Betrayal of the West
The West in Reality and the West on the Screen
Around the Chuck Wagon: Cowboy Yarns
Stretching the Blanket
Authentic Liars
Recent Fiction of the Southwest
(any writer worth writing about)
Literary Magazines of the Southwest
Ranch Women
Mexican Labor (on ranch, farm,
or in town)
Mexican Folk Tales
Backwoods Life in Frederick Gerstaecker
"The Old Catdeman" in Alfred
Henry Lewis' _Wolfville_ Books
Mayne Reid as an Exponent of the
Southwest (see estimate of him
in _Mesa, Canon and Pueblo_,
by Charles F.
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