This document provides a comprehensive overview and annotated bibliography, and is focused upon the period of 1994-2005. Beyond the challenges, the opportunities captured and unique solutions are also reported. This third edition of "Mental Health and Rural America: 1994-2005" seeks to concisely present a comprehensive summary of the current knowledge base around mental health issues in rural and frontier America. Rural America is a diverse environment in every way, including its cultures, landscapes, and economies. There is "no one rural", but there are many rural myths. This book will provide the reader with an array of information to begin to help understand the facts of rural mental health today at the beginning of the 21st Century. "Mental Health and Rural America: 1994-2005", provides a solid resource to assist Federal, State, and local efforts to improve quality mental health and substance use policy and services for rural America.