Introduction -- For the sake of a story (1830's) -- Out of the smoke of war (1840's) -- Beware the villain (1850's) -- Take your history painlessly (1870's) -- In quest of local color (--1900--) -- In the wake of the harte tradition (1910) -- Be patient with them Don (1920) -- And peon (1930) -- Bibliography

Thesis (M.A.)-- University of Wichita, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of English