SUMARIO. Acknowledgements // Introduction // 1. How the West Was Sung: Music in the Life and Films of John Ford / 2. Hearing the Music in Ford’s Silents: The Iron Horse and 3 Bad Men / 3. Based on American Folk Songs: Scoring the West in Stagecoach / 4. Two Fordian Film Scores: My Darling Clementine and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance / 5. Westerns as Hell: 3 Godfathers and Wagon Master / 6. The Girl I Left Behind Me: Men, Women, and Ireland in the Cavalry Trilogy / 7. What Makes a Man to Wander: The Searchers / 8. In the Shadow of The Searchers: Two Rode Together and Sergeant Rutledge / 9. Cheyenne Autumn: A Conclusion // Notes // Bibliography // Credits // Index