Captivating Westerns

Susan Kollin is professor of English and director of the Center for Western Lands and Peoples at Montana State University. She is the editor of Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space (Nebraska, 2007) and author of Nature’s State: Imagining Alaska as the Last Frontier.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Transnational Cowboys and the Middle East1. “I Longed to Be an Arab”: The Eastern Origins of the Western2. From the Moors: The Easts and Wests of Willa Cather3. On Savagery and Civilization: Buffalo Bill and the East4. The Persian Peddler and the Egyptian Elixir: Racial Intimacies in Oklahoma!5. Specters of Loss: Violence and the National Mission in Post-9/11 Westerns6. East of the Spaghetti Western: Global Travels of the GenreConclusion: Once Upon a Time in the Middle EastNotesBibliographyIndex