Working within enclosure : the traditional canon -- The demands of space : the Westering imagination -- Divided narrative : Mary Austin and Sherwood Anderson -- Hemingway : the body as matrix -- The big sky : searching for a new story -- High country in The ox-bow incident -- The conquest of Don Pedro : Harvey Fergusson's "Long rider" -- Wright Morris : living in the world -- Valuing surface : the imagination of Ivan Doig -- After words : the western movies of John Ford and Sam Peckinpah.