Contents Note: Dedication--Preface--Acknowledgements--Possemen of Denver Westerners, 1950--Recording the West--Shadow-Catchers of the Red Man by Elmo Scott Watson--Writing the Western Story by Ramon F. Adams--Historic Characters--John Wesley Iliff by Edward W. Milligan--An Army Officer in the West: 1869-1890 by Robert G. Athearn--Behind a Woman's Skirt: The Saga of "Cattle Kate" by Nolie Mumey--C. T. The Sage of the Rockies by Charles B. Roth--Mining and Frontier Settlements--Lake City by Raymond Colwell--Aspen: The Mining Community, 1879-1893 by Robert F. Bartlett--Indian Atrocities on the Texas Frontier by Walter Gann--Western Animals--Rocky Mountain Burro Tales by Levette J. Davidson--Hides, Hams, and Tongues by William H. Hutchinson--A Western Sheep Frive, 1882: the diary of Lavincia Bent--Business and Trade--Early Denver Businesses by Alonzo E. Ellsworth--Sidelights on Santa Fe Traders, 1839-1846 by Harold H. Dunham--Merchandising Struggles in Early Utah: the success of Z.C.M.I. by Arden B. Olsen--Index