The Humor of the Southwest Similes from Nature (Crockett is rich in them) The Code of Individualism The Code of the Range Six-shooter Ethics The Right to Kill The Tradition of Cowboy Gallantry (read Owen Wister's _The Virginian_ and _A Journey in Search of Christmas;_ also novels by Eugene Manlove Rhodes) Frontier Hospitality Amusements (shooting matches, tournaments, play parties, dances, poker, horse races, quiltings, house-raisings) The Western Gambler (Bret Harte and Alfred Henry Lewis have idealized him in fiction; he might be contrasted with the Mississippi River gambler) Indian Captives The Age of Horse Culture (Spanish, Indian, Anglo-American; the horse was important enough to any one of these classes to warrant extended study) The Cowboy's Horse The Cowboy Myth (Mody Boatright is writing a book on the subject) Evolution of the Frontier Criminal Lawyer The Frontier Intellect in the Atomic Age British Chroniclers of the West Civilized Perspective in Writings on the Old West The Indian in Fiction Fictional Betrayal of the West The West in Reality and the West on the Screen Around the Chuck Wagon: Cowboy Yarns Stretching the Blanket Authentic Liars Recent Fiction of the Southwest (any writer worth writing about) Literary Magazines of the Southwest Ranch Women Mexican Labor (on ranch, farm, or in town) Mexican Folk Tales Backwoods Life in Frederick Gerstaecker "The Old Catdeman" in Alfred Henry Lewis' _Wolfville_ Books Mayne Reid as an Exponent of the Southwest (see estimate of him in _Mesa, Canon and Pueblo_, by Charles F. Lummis) The Gunman in Fiction and Reality (O. Henry, Bret Harte, Alfred Henry Lewis; _The Saga of Billy the Kid_, by Walter Noble Burns; Gillett's _Six Years with the Texas Rangers;_ Webb's _The Texas Rangers;_ Lake's _Wyatt Earp)_ Character of the Trail Drivers Cowboy's Life as Reflected in His Songs "Wrathy to Kill a Bear" (the frontiersman as a destroyer of wild life "I Thought I Might See Something to Shoot at" Anecdotes of the Stump Speaker Exempla of Revivalists and Campmeeting Preachers The Campmeeting Stagecoaching Life on the Santa Fe Trail The Rendezvous of the Mountain Men In the Covered Wagon Squatter Life No Shade From Grass to Wheat From Wheat to Dust Brush (a special study of prickly pear, the mesquite, or some other form of flora could be made) Cotton (whole books are suggested here, the tenant farmer being one of the subjects)