Introduction : Testing the limits of the United States : the history of the Civil War and the American West in one frame / Adam Arenson
Thwarting Southern schemes and British bluster in the Pacific Northwest / James Robbins Jewell
Death in the distance : Confederate manifest destiny and the campaign for New Mexico, 1861-1862 / Megan Kate Nelson
Kit Carson and the war for the Southwest : separation and survival along the Rio Grande, 1862-1868 / Lance R. Blyth
Scattered people : the long history of forced eviction in the Kansas-Missouri borderlands / Diane Mutti Burke
"The future empire of our freedmen?" : Republican colonization schemes in Texas and Mexico, 1861-1865 / Nicholas Guyatt
Three faces of sovereignty : governing Confederate, Mexican, and Indian Texas in the Civil War era / Gregory P. Downs
Redemption falls short : soldier and surgeon in the post-Civil War Far West / William Deverell
Still picture, moving stories : Reconstruction comes to Indian country / Martha Sandweiss
Race, religion, and naturalization : how the West shaped citizenship debates in the Reconstruction Congress / Joshua Paddison
Broadening the battlefield : conflict, contingency, and the mystery of woman suffrage in Wyoming, 1869 / Virginia Scharff
"Dis land which jines dat of Ole master's" : the meaning of citizenship for the Choctaw freedpeople / Fay A. Yarbrough
"Citizen's clothing" : Reconstruction, Ho-Chunk persistence, and the politics of dress / Stephen Kantrowitz
Epilogue : the widest implications of disorienting the Civil War era / Steven Hahn.
Civil War wests : testing the limits of the United States. ISBN 9780520283794. Published by University of California Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.