New Western (continued), 103–106, 112–113, 125, 130–132, 134–136, 140, 145–147, 149, 151, 153–157, 159–161, 163–165, 172

memoirs and narratives, 4

revisionism, 8, 11, 16, 18, 45, 59, 63–64, 109, 161

Nez Perce Indians, 165

open space, ix–x, 4, 7, 10, 15, 18, 25–26, 93, 151, 157

oral tradition, the, 73

Ortiz, Simon J., 43, 66–67, 69, 80, 148, 152–153

Paiute Indians, 104–105, 169n6

palimpsest, xi, 4–5, 160

postcolonial, 8, 161n11, 167n15

postmodern, 8, 19

progress, idea of, 5, 7, 48, 56–57, 64, 122, 125, 135, 142, 162n13

property ownership, 92–95, 103–104, 107, 113, 123–124, 147

racial prejudice, 122

rebozo, xi, 133–134, 136, 140, 143, 156

regionalist writers, 46

Sand Creek Massacre, 69, 84

Silko, Leslie Marmon, 89, 109, 148, 152–154

Slotkin, Richard, 41

smallpox, 29, 38

Smith, Annick, 9, 44, 93, 147, 152–153

The Solace of Open Spaces, 15–18, 21–22, 25, 40–41, 48, 53, 162

Storyteller, 109–112, 117–118, 122–125, 140, 147–148, 154, 156, 170

synecdochic selfhood, 67, 112

Treaty of Ruby Valley, 2, 159

Turner, Frederick Jackson, 5

Turner Thesis, 5–6, 10

uranium mining, 73–74, 167

Virgin of Guadalupe, 130, 137–138

The Virginian, 6, 17–18, 21, 100

Western American, 48, 92, 123, 163

autobiography, xi, 10–11, 16, 48, 97

historiography, 5, 132, 154

regional discourse, 5

Western Shoshone Indians, 2

Westerns, formula, 5–6, 10, 15–16, 25, 40, 100

westward expansion, 6, 22, 25, 42, 117–118, 152, 160–161

White, Hayden, 146, 155

White, Richard, 7, 59

white space, 5, 112, 130, 153, 157

whiteness, 24, 120

wilderness, idea of, 47, 62–64, 86–88, 165n3

Winnemucca, Sarah, 105, 166

Wister, Owen, 6, 17

Woman Hollering Creek, 128–130

Wounded Knee Massacre, 36