The pioneers / Robert M. Coates -- A wild strain / Paul Horgan -- Wagon wheels in the rigging / Walter Havighurst -- A man called horse / Dorothy M. Johnson -- Scenes at Fort Laramie / Francis Parkman -- The young warrior / Oliver La Farge -- On the way to the California gold fileds / Grant Foreman -- Ordeal by handcart / Wallace Stegner -- Montana justice / C. Beidler -- My father and the winning of the West / John Prescott -- The buffaloes / Mari Sandoz -- The mustang who turned mustang / J. Frank Dobie -- Trail drive / Joe B. Frantz and Julian Ernest Choate Jr. -- Bulls and the blood call / J Frank Dobie -- Going it alone / Will James -- Open winter / H.L. Davis -- My Oregon papa / Lucille Vaughan Payne.