Preface / Mrs. Henry H. R. Coe
Introduction / Peter H. Hassrick
Frontier America: the artist's environment / Sarah E. Boehme
The West and American unity / Paul Fees
Illustrations: Colonel William F. Cody / Rosa Bonheur [front cover] -- Island Lake, Wind River Range / Albert Bierstadt [title page] -- Yellowstone Falls / Albert Bierstadt -- Weapons of war / Alexander Pope -- Kee-o-Kuck / James Otto Lewis -- Naw-Kaw / Charles Bird King -- The travelers meeting with Minnetaree Indians near Fort Clark / Karl Bodmer -- Minnetarree Village / George Catlin -- Primitive sailing by the Winnebago Indians, Upper Missouri / George Catlin -- Rainmaking Mandan / George Catlin -- Wild horses at play / George Catlin -- Crow chief / George Catlin -- Assiniboin Indians / Karl Bodmer -- Crossing one of the sources of the Colorado of the West / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Indian encampment near the Wind River Mountains / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Indians assembled in grand council to hold a "talk" / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Greeting the trappers / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Indians fording a river / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Elk hunting in the Rocky Mountains / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Surround of buffalo by Indians / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Louis--Rocky Mountain trapper / Alfred Jacob Miller -- Mountain man / Anonymous (possibly John Murdoch) -- Indian elopement / Alfred Jacob Miller -- The Lewis and Clark expedition / Thomas Mickell Burnham -- A herd of bison crossing the Missouri River / William Jacob Hays -- Island Lake, Wind River Range / Alfred Bierstadt -- Last of the buffalo / Alfred Bierstadt -- Buffalo head / Alfred Bierstadt -- Last of the buffalo / Alfred Bierstadt -- Longs Peak from Denver / Worthington Whittredge -- Geysers in Yellowstone / Alfred Bierstadt -- The golden gate / Thomas Moran -- Prospecting for cattle range / Frederic Remington -- The buffalo hunt / Frederic Remington -- The outlaw / Frederic Remington -- The Cheyenne / Frederic Remington -- Coming through the rye / Frederic Remington -- The bronco buster / Frederic Remington -- The mountain man / Frederic Remington -- Mounted cowboy in chaps with bay horse / Frederic Remington -- Shoshonie / Frederic Remington --
Illustrations: Watcher of the plains / Charles M. Russell
Radisson and Groseilliers / Frederic Remington
Days of long ago / Henry Farny
Self-portrait / Charles M. Russell
Friend Tex / Charles M. Russell
Roping a grizzly / Charles M. Russell
When law dulls the edge of chance / Charles M. Russell
The buffalo herd / Charles M. Russell
Mountain mother / Charles M. Russell
The weaver / Charles M. Russell
Indian women moving camp / Charles M. Russell
Waiting for a chinook / Charles M. Russell
Sioux torturing a blackfoot brave / Charles M. Russell
Bringing home the spoils / Charles M. Russell
Joe Kipp's trading post / Charles M. Russell
Moose / Alexander Phimister Proctor
Buffalo / Henry Merwin Shrady
End of the trail / James Earle Fraser
The sun vow / Hermon Atkins MacNeil
The sunfisher / Sally James Farnham
One in a thousand (the bronc buster) / Solon H. Borglum
Watching for the white man's boats / Olaf C. Seltzer
Above the sea of round, shiny backs the thin loops swirled and shot into volumes of dust / N.C. Wyeth
The lee of the grub-wagon / N.C. Wyeth
Madonna of the prairie / W.H.D. Koerner
They stood there watching him move across the range, leading his pack horse / W.H.D. Koerner
Cove in Yellowstone Park / Frank Tenney Johnson
Waterfall in Yellowstone / John Henry Twachtman
Burial cortege of a Crow chief / Joseph Henry Sharp
The warbonnet / Joseph Henry Sharp
The broken bow (father and son) / Joseph Henry Sharp
Holding up the stage / Edward Borein
Crow Medicine man / Edward Borein
The bandido / Edward Borein
Panning gold, Wyoming / William R. Leigh
The medicine robe / Maynard Dixon
Mammoth Hot Springs / Thomas Moran
The conquest of the prairie / Irving R. Bacon
Trappers saluting the Rocky Mountains / Alfred Jacob Miller
Buffalo Bill in 1868 photograph
Buffalo Bill in 1893 photograph
Indians on a bluff surveying General Miles' troops / Charles M. Russell
The scout / Harvey T. Dunn
The summit Springs rescue / Charles Schreyvogel
The Custer fight / William Herbert Dunton
Hunting party / Charles M. Russell
Last of their race / John Mix Stanley
Buffalo Bill in the spotlight / Frederic Remington
Colonel William F. Cody / Rosa Bonheur.
