Pt. 1. The axes of analysis: frontier western discourse and theatre practice
The frontier western discourse at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century
The turn-of-the-century American theatre context
Discipline and spontaneity: Clyde Fitch's The cowboy and the lady and Augustus Thomas's Arizona
Drama from novels: John Ermine of the Yellowstone and The Virginian
Variations on the frontier myth: Edward Milton Royle's The squaw man and David Belasco's The girl of the golden west
From melodrama to realism: William Vaughn Moody's The Great Divide and Rachel Crothers's The three of us
