| Over the Edge |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| INTRODUCTION |
 | PART ONE— IMAGINING THE WEST |
| • | 1— Seeing and Being Seen: Tourism in the American West |
| • | 2— Toga! Toga! |
| • | 3— Sacred and Profane: Mae West's (re) Presentation of Western Religion |
| • | 4— "I Think Our Romance Is Spoiled," or, Crossing Genres: California History in Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona and María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don |
| • | 5— A Westerner in Search of "Negro-Ness": Region and Race in the Writing of Arna Bontemps |
| PART TWO— CROSSING BOUNDARIES |
| • | 6— "Domestic" Life in the Diggings: The Southern Mines in the California Gold Rush |
| • | 7— Making Men in the West: The Coming of Age of Miles Cavanaugh and Martin Frank Dunham |
| • | 8— Changing Woman: Maternalist Politics and "Racial Rehabilitation" in the U.S. West |
| • | 9— Mobility, Women, and the West |
 | 10— Plague in Los Angeles, 1924: Ethnicity and Typicality |
| 11— The Tapia-Saiki Incident: Interethnic Conflict and Filipino Responses to the Anti-Filipino Exclusion Movement |
| • | 12— Race, Gender, and the Privileges of Property: On the Significance of Miscegenation Law in the U.S. West |
| • | 13— American Indian Blood Quantum Requirements: Blood Is Thicker than Family |
| PART THREE— CREATING COMMUNITY |
| • | 14— Crucifixion, Slavery, and Death: The Hermanos Penitentes of the Southwest |
| • | 15— "Pongo Mi Demanda": Challenging Patriarchy in Mexican Los Angeles, 1830-1850 |
| • | 16— Japanese American Women and the Creation of Urban Nisei Culture in the 1930s |
| • | 17— Competing Communities at Work: Asian Americans, European Americans, and Native Alaskans in the Pacific Northwest, 1938-1947 |
| • | 18— Perceiving, Experiencing, and Expressing the Sacred: An Indigenous Southern Californian View |
| 19— Dead West: Ecocide in Marlboro Country |
| Part One— Portraits of Hell |
| Part Two— Healing Global Wounds |
| 20— La Frontera Del Norte |
| Notes |
| CONTRIBUTORS |
| INDEX |