Contents

Acknowledgements

 Introduction

Signposts and Scales

1 Scaling and Spacing the Genre

Transnationalism, Nationalism, and Regionalism

2 Tom King’s John Wayne

Indigenous Perspectives on the Western

3 The Northwestern Cross

Christianity and Transnationalism in Early Canadian Westerns

4 From Law to Outlaw

The Second World War, Westerns, and the ’40s Pulps

5 CanLit’s Postmodern Westerns

Ghosts and the Cowgirl Riding Off into the Sunrise

6 Degeneration through Violence

Contemporary Historical Westerns and Post-human Horsemen

 Conclusion

Mining the Western in the Twenty-First Century

Works Reproduced in Part

Works Consulted

Index