Redrawing the Western: a history of American comics and the mythic West

Introduction. Rethinking the Western genre through comics

Part 1. The origins of the mythic West in comics, 1800s-1930s. "Print the legend" : imagining the American West in the nineteenth-century illustrated press ; The spectacle of the Southwest : post-frontier imaginings of the Far West in newspaper comic strips ; Saddling up in the slump : retooling the Western during the Depression

Part 2. A Golden Age of Western comics, 1940s-1970s. Cowboys, crooks, and comic books : the Western stands tall ; Nuclear showdown : Western comic books ride through the Cold War ; "I know it's not in the romantic Western spirit" : subverting the mythic West in postwar comics ; Blood on the borders : mixing the Wild West with political unrest in comics from the troubled 1960s and 1970s

Coda. Walking on the bones of the dead : comics and the Western's "afterlife."