Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface: Sharing the West(s)
C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker
Introduction: No Caitlin without Kane, or, Really Understanding the "American" West
Robert Thacker
Turner versus Innis: Two Mythic Wests
R. Douglas Francis
One West, One Myth: Transborder Continuity in Western Art
Brian W. Dippie
A Northern Vision: Frontiers and the West in the Canadian and American Imagination
William H. Katergerg
Transitional Perspectives on the History of the Great Plains Women: Gender, Race, Nations, and the Forty-ninth Parallel
Sarah Carter
Myths and Realities in American-Canadian Studies: Challenges to Comparing Native Peoples' Experiences
Roger L. Nichols
Prairies and Plains: The Levelling of Difference in Stegner's Wolf Willow
David L. Williams
Whose West Is It Anyway?, or, What's Myth Got to Do with It?: The Role of "America" in the Creation of the Myth of the West
Lee Clark Mitcehll
Leading the Parade
Aritha van Herk
Appendices
The Significance of the Frontier of American History
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frontierism, Metropolitanism, and Canadian History
J.M.S. Careless
Bibliographic Essay
C.L. Higham
Index