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| Nachruf/In Memoriam Günter Schmitt (1941-2006) | 
 7 
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| Honorary Membership/Ehrenmitgliedschaft: Fred Raymond Erisman | 
 9 
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| Max Brand and the Ethics of the Western Hero  David L. Simpson  | 
 17 
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| Newspapermen in the Western  Kenneth E. Hall  | 
 31 
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| Enacting the Landscape: Frederick Manfred's Lord
Grizzly and Vardis Fisher's Mountain Man Stephen L. Tanner  | 
 51 
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| Funktionen von Landschaft in Westerncomics  Karl Jürgen Roth  | 
 59 
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| Imaginäre Landschaften des Westens: Reisewege im Werk
von Karl May  Hans Grunert  | 
 71 
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| American Indian Mysteries: An Introduction  Birgit Hans  | 
 81 
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| The Axis of Desire: Women and Dreamers in Cormac
McCarthy's The Border Trilogy Marilyn Knight  | 
 93 
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| Domesticating the Cowboy: Owen Wister's The
Virginian as Validation of Marriage  Wendy Pearce Miller  | 
 101 
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| James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the
Mohicans and the Hudson River School of Painting Max C. Oestersötebier  | 
 107 
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| The Language of Western Literature  Peter Bischoff Appendix: Black Harris and the Putrified Forest  | 
 121 
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 Story 
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" Dorothy M. Johnson  | 
 139  | 
| Toward an Interpretation  Peter Bischoff/Peter Nocon  | 
 155 
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 Film 
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Peter Bischoff/Peter Nocon  | 
 157  | 
| Loneliness and Redemption: The Conematic Vision of Sam
Peckinpah  David L. Simpson  | 
 167 
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| Spaghetti statt Fastfood: Sergio Leones
"Dollar-Trilogie" Michael Scholz  | 
 173 
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 Music 
Landscape and Music in Louis L'Amour's Novels Gary R. Hooper/Jerry L. Jaccard  | 
 185  | 
| Der Western in der deutschsprachigen Presse | 
 203 
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| Editors & Contributors | 
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