Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Sacred Spaces: Religion, Land, and Identity in the Trans-Appalachian West (1800-1840) -- Chapter Two. Religion and Empire: Mythic Trails, Stolen Homelands, and Forced Migration in the Antebellum West (1840-1860) -- Chapter Three. Frontier Violence: Making Americans and the Myth of the West (1860-1890) -- Chapter Four. Religion Here and Now -- Conclusion. A Visual Epigraph -- Bibliography -- Contributors