附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-170) and index.
Ch. 1. The Formula Western and How It Grew -- Ch. 2. B.M. Bower and the Happy Family -- Ch. 3. Caroline Lockhart and Her Strong Willed Heroines -- Ch. 4. Vingie E. Roe's Novels of Beset Womanhood -- Ch. 5. Women, Religion, and Politics in the Western Novels of Honore Willsie Morrow -- Ch. 6. Persons, Property, and Power: Katharine Newlin Burt's Western Heroines -- Ch. 7. Other Authors -- Ch. 8. Recapitulation and Conclusions.