附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-327) and index.
1. His Blood's Country -- 2. Escape, Ambivalence, and Return -- 3. Leaving Thalia: The Rural Trilogy and In a Narrow Grave -- 4. The Houston Trilogy -- 5. Escape: The Trash Trilogy -- 6. Return: Lonesome Dove -- 7. Thalia, Houston Redux: Texasville, Some Can Whistle, and The Evening Star -- 8. The Symbolic Frontiersman: Anything for Billy, Buffalo Girls, and Streets of Laredo -- 9. McMurtry and the Movies: Film Flam -- 10. The Roundup.