(O. Henry, Bret Harte, Alfred
Henry Lewis; _The Saga of Billy
the Kid_, by Walter Noble Burns;
Gillett's _Six Years with the Texas
Rangers;_ Webb's _The Texas
Rangers;_ Lake's _Wyatt Earp)_
Character of the Trail Drivers Cowboy's Life as Reflected in His Songs
"Wrathy to Kill a Bear" (the frontiersman as a destroyer of wild life
"I Thought I Might See Something to Shoot at" Anecdotes of the Stump
Speaker Exempla of Revivalists and Campmeeting Preachers The Campmeeting
Stagecoaching Life on the Santa Fe Trail The Rendezvous of the Mountain
Men In the Covered Wagon Squatter Life No Shade From Grass to Wheat From
Wheat to Dust Brush (a special study of prickly pear, the mesquite, or some other
form of flora could be made)
Cotton (whole books are suggested here, the tenant farmer being one
of the subjects)
Oil Booms Longhorns Coyote Stories Deer Nature, or Whitetails and Their
Rattlesnakes, or Rattlesnake Stories Panther Stories Tarantula Lore
Grasshopper Plagues The Javelina in Fact and in Folk Tale The Roadrunner
(Paisano) Wild Turkeys The Poisoned-Out Prairie Dog Sheep Vanishing
Sheep Herders The Bee Hunter Pot Hunters Buffalo Hunters The Bar Hunter
and Bar Stories Indian Fighter Indian Hater Scalps Squaw Men Mountain
Men and Grizzlies Scouts and Guides Stage Drivers Fiddlers and Fiddle
Tunes Frontier Justices of the Peace (Roy Bean set the example)
Horse Traders Horse Racers Newspapermen Frontier Schoolteacher
Circuit Rider Pony Express Rider Folk Tales of My Community Flavorsome
Characters of My Community Stanley Vestal Harvey Fergusson Kansas Cow
Towns Drought and Thirst Washington Irving on the West Witty Repartee
in Eugene Manlove Rhodes Bigfoot Wallace's Humor Charles M. Russell as
Artist of the West (or any other western artist)
Learning to See Life Around Me Features of My Own Cultural Inheritance
I Heard It Back Home Family Traditions My Family's Interesting Character
Doodlebugs in the Sand Bobwhites Blue Quail Coachwhips and Other Good
Snakes Mockingbird Habits Jack Rabbit Lore Catfish Lore Herb Remedies
"Criticism of Life" in Southwestern Fiction
Intellectual Integrity in________________ (Name of writer or writers or
some locally prominent newspaper to be supplied)
{pages 197 - 222 are an Index -- not included}