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This collection of twenty-eight western short stories from the 1920s-1990s includes works by renowned writers such as Zane Grey, Max…
Brand, Conrad Richter, Alan LeMay, and Cherry Wilson, as well as contemporary tales by Richard Wheeler, Ernest Haycox, and Cynthia Haseloff. Some strong language
Morie Brannt, denied the opportunity to work on her wealthy father's Texas ranch, takes a job incognito on Mallory Kirk's…
Wyoming spread to learn the business. The two manage to hide their attraction--until a crisis leaves Mallory in danger. Some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2011
An anthology of short stories and essays together with a few poems written by twenty-seven of today's top Western writers.…
Also included is the western novella "The Big Guns," by Andrew Fenady. 2020
Three western romances. In Georgina Gentry's "The Great Cowboy Race," heiress Henrietta Jennings enters a thousand-mile horse race from Nebraska…
to Illinois and falls for her toughest competitor, wrangler Comanche Jones. Also includes Teresa Bodwell's "Moonlight Whispers" and Lorraine Heath's "The Reluctant Hero." Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006
Anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts exploring the range and evolution of Western American literature including the Native American…
experience. Features selections by Louise Erdrich, Lewis and Clark, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, W.H. Auden, Ken Kesey, Barry Lopez, and others. 1997
Anthology of original western stories captures the westward legacy from a North American's first glimpse of a horse in sixteenth-century…
Kansas to a 1913 gunbattle in a Utah copper mine. Authors include Loren D. Estleman, Don Coldsmith, John Jakes, and Richard S. Wheeler. Some strong language. 2003
Fifteen western short stories spanning the frontier experience. "The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing" by Harry W. Paige depicts the…
despair of a reservation woman at home alone on her thirty-fifth birthday. Loren D. Estleman's "The Cat King of Cochise County" is a comic tale about the discoverer of chicken wire. 2000
Author of Lonesome Dove (DB 22959) has compiled twenty tales about the American West by writers of the late twentieth…
century, including Wallace Stegner, Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, and William H. Gass. These pieces demonstrate how western stories have evolved and matured since the 1950s. Some strong language. 2000
Twenty nontraditional "western" tales. "The Guardians," a story by Don Coldsmith, is based on a historical incident in which Native…
Americans are not attackers but protectors. In "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing," Johnny D. Boggs writes a moving narrative from the perspective of a piano. Some strong language. 2001
A selection of eighteen short stories. Includes "The Idyl of Red Gulch" by Bret Harte, "The Lonesome Road" by O.…
Henry, and tales by Jack London, Mark Twain, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Ed Gorman. 1996. 1996
Nineteen short western stories from well-known authors like Louis L'Amour, John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, and John D. MacDonald. In Lost…
Sister a white woman is returned to her family after living with Indians for forty years. In Markers two cowpokes ponder the different epitaphs they have read. Some violence. 1994
Thirty western short stories from the twentieth century. Includes work by Louis L'Amour, Jack London, Elmer Kelton, Luke Short, Max…
Brand, and Zane Grey. Introduction by John Jakes. Some violence. 2000
Nine western stories later made into movies. Includes "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah, starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne as…
cavalrymen at Little Big Horn. In Dorothy M. Johnson's "The Hanging Tree," Gary Cooper is Doctor Joe Frail, who falls in love with Elizabeth, played by Maria Schell. Violence
Written in the 1980s, this collection of short stories includes traditional western adventures and stories that push the western in…
new directions. From masters of the genre as well as some of the new stars
The sixteen short stories and three novel excerpts featured in this compilation demonstrate the unique focus of modern Western literature…
upon the inner nuances of human experience. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence and strong language
Sixteen short stories that take place in the Western United States and have a Western "attitude". The imaginary West, the…
Real West, the New West, and the Old West converge in this celebration of that fascinating landscape. The stories are modern with present day themes and are for the most part serious in nature. Descriptions of sex, violence and strong language
Fifteen literary short stories set in the American West, this book draws from a wide variety of national and regional…
magazines such as The New Yorker, Atlantic, Quarterly West, and Southwest Review. Contains explicit descriptions of sex
A collection of seventeen short westerns about men in trouble--gamblers, outlaws, miners, and lawmen--some victims of circumstance, others because of…
their own doing. Includes Louis L'Amour's "The Town No Guns Could Tame" as well as works by Loren D. Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Bill Gulick, and others. 2001
A collection of short stories by cowboys and cowgirls of the "real working west." Diverse tales of ranch hands, a…
horse trainer, and even murder have a few themes in common: hard work, survival among the elements, and homemade biscuits. Includes Jimbo Brewer's Spur Award-winner, "The Old Man." 2002