Mexican tale / Albert Pike --
Life of mountain men / George Frederick Ruxton --
Prairie flower / Emerson Bennett --
English and the Irish among the grizzly bears / Anne Bowman --
Visit underground / Mary Hallock Foote --
Detective finally wins / Edward L. Wheeler --
Cliff dwellers of the Rito / Adolf F. Bandelier --
Death by violence / Cy Warman --
Celebrating in Frenchman's Ford / Andy Adams --
Rescue of the Governor's daughter / James Ohio Pattie --
Fur trading in the west / Washington Irving --
Fitzpatrick's narrow escape / Zenas Leonard --
Romantic glimpses of the west / Rufus B. Sage --
Mulatto chief among the Crow Indians / T. D. Bonner --
Kit Carson, greatest scout of the west / Dewitt C. Peters --
Mountaineers / Randolph Barnes Marcy --
English sportsman in the Yellowstone / Earl of Dunraven --
Massacre at White River Agency / Thomas F. Dawson and F. J. V. Skiff --
Indian dances / Richard Irving Dodge --
Insurrection at Taos and the Mountain Meadows massacre / Henry Inman --
Discovery of Pikes Peak / Zebulon Montgomery Pike --
First great exploration of the west / Meriwether Lewis and William Clark --
Fort Laramie and the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies / John Charles Frémont --
Indians, trappers, and emigrants / Francis Parkman --
Experiences during a survey of the Great Salt Lake / Howard Stansbury --
Traveling by mule team to Salt Lake City / Mrs. B. G. Ferris --
Three days in the new gold region of Colorado / Horace Greeley --
Colfax party visits Denver and Salt Lake City / Albert D. Richardson --
Arkansas Valley and the Twin Lakes / Bayard Taylor --
Winter in the mountains / William F. Raynolds --
Colorado, the Rocky Mountain gem / Ned Farrell --
Montana mining camps / A. K. McClure --
Ascent of Long's Peak / Isabella L. Bird --
Santa Fe trade Josiah Gregg --
New Mexican life in the fifties / W. W. H. Davis --
Women in Mormonism / Mrs. T. B. H. Stenhouse --
Pioneering in Colorado / Alice Polk Hill --
Denver as an infant city / Howard Louis Conard --
Preacher on snow-shoes / John L. Dyer --
Vigilante justice / Nathaniel Pitt Langford --
Overland freight outfit and the Pony Express / Alexander Majors --
Pursuing criminals in the frontier west / David J. Cook --
Staging between Atchison and Denver / Frank A. Root and William E. Connelley --
Grandeur and destiny of the west / William Gilpin --
Goldrick's account of Denver's great flood / Junius E. Wharton --
Bowlder Canyon / Helen Hunt Jackson --
Days in the west / Walt Whitman --
Hunting bighorn on the western slope / Lewis Brown France --
Land of poco tiempo / Charles F. Lummis --
Early social life in Central City / Frank Crissey Young --
Hatcher in hell / Lewis H. Garrard --
Humorist exploits the Mormons / Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward) --
Pike's Peakers of '59 / Lawrence N. Greenleaf --
Memorable sights on the Overland / Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) --
Thoughts of a Wyoming wit / Edgar Wilson Nye (Bill Nye) --
Lessons for the little folks / Eugene Field --
Railroad blasting / Ernest Ingersoll --
How Áhaiyúta and Mátsailéma stole the thunderstone and the lightning-shaft / Frank Hamilton Cushing.