"Curious historical artistic data" - art history and Western American art, N. Anderson; telling tales on canvas - landscapes of frontier change, W. Cronon; the moving finger writes - Western art and the dynamics of change, B.W. Dipple; the absent other - women in the land of mountain men, S.P. Prendergast; the public life of Western art, M.A. Sandweiss; looking backward, looking forward - selected themes in Western art since 1900.