Introduction: Literate tourism and Cather's southwest / John N. Swift and Joseph R. Urgo
Pt. 1. On Mesa Verde. Unwrapping the mummy: Cather's Mother Eve and the business of desire / John N. Swift ; Anasazi cannibalism: eating Eden / Ann Fisher-Wirth ; From Mesa Verde to Germany: the appropriation of Indian artifacts as part of Willa Cather's cultural critique in The professor's house / Matthias Schubnell ; Fear of a queer mesa?: faith, friendship, and national sexuality in "Tom Outland's story" / Marilee Lindemann ; Holy cities, poor savages, and the science culture: positioning The professor's house / John J. Murphy
Pt. 2. The professor's house. The experience of meaning in The professor's house / Richard H. Millington ; Cather and the father of history / Merrill Maguire Skaggs ; Twain and Cather, once again / Tom Quirk
Pt. 3. Death comes for the archbishop. Willa Cather and the Santos tradition in Death comes for the archbishop / Mary Chinery ; Writing culture: Willa Cather's southwest / Christopher Schedler ; Landscapes of the magical: Cather's and Anaya's explorations of the southwest / Manuel Broncano ; Multiculturalism as nostalgia in Cather, Faulkner, and U.S. culture / Joseph R. Urgo ; Afterword: From The professor's house to the roundhouse
and beyond / David Harrell.
