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The Morrow anthology of great Western short stories
By Jon Tuska. 1997
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 languageThe annotated African American folktales (The Annotated Books #0)
By Maria Tatar, Henry Louis Gates. 2018
A collection of over a hundred stories, essays, folktales, myths, and legends from African American history. Includes well-known classics, such…
as Brer Rabbit and Anansi, as well as lesser-known traditions. Includes information about how these tales were sometimes hijacked or misappropriated and contains numerous annotations and illustrations. Some strong language. 2018Toil and trouble: 15 tales of women & witchcraft
By Nova Ren Suma, Brenna Yovanoff, Elizabeth May, Andrea Cremer, Zoraida Córdova, Jessica Spotswood, Brandy Colbert, Robin Talley, Lindsay Smith, Emery Lord, Tess Sharpe, Shveta Thakrar, Anna-Marie McLemore, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Kate Hart. 2018
Compilation of fifteen feminist tales of women embracing their magical powers and witchcraft. In Tehlor Kay Mejia's "Starsong," sixteen-year-old Esperanza,…
a bruja, surprises herself when she connects on social media with a skeptic, a NASA-loving girl. Strong language. For senior high and older readers. 2018Mythic journeys: retold myths and legends
By Paula Guran. 2019
A collection of twenty-eight stories that reexamine and reinterpret ancient myths and legends. The cultural roots of the stories come…
from around the world, with contributors including Neil Gaiman, Ken Liu, Rachel Pollack, Yoon Ha Lee, and Ann Leckie. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019The starlit wood: new fairy tales
By Navah Wolfe, Dominik Parisien. 2016
Fantasy authors reimagine eighteen classic fairy tales. Includes Daryl Gregory's take on Hansel and Gretel, "Even the Crumbs Were Delicious."…
Other authors in the collection include Seanan McGuire, Garth Nix, and Naomi Novik. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2016Wyoming tough (Wyoming Men #1)
By Diana Palmer. 2011
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. 2011Greek myths: A new retelling
By Charlotte Higgins. 2022
A brilliantly original, landmark retelling of Greek myths, recounted as if they were actual scenes being woven into textiles by…
the women who feature prominently in them—including Athena, Helen, Circe and Penelope &“Greek myths were full of powerful witches, unpredictable gods and sword-wielding slayers. They were also extreme: about families who turn murderously on each other; impossible tasks set by cruel kings; love that goes wrong; wars and journeys and terrible loss. There was magic, there was shape-shifting, there were monsters, there were descents to the land of the dead. Humans and immortals inhabited the same world, which was sometimes perilous, sometimes exciting. &“The stories were obviously fantastical. All the same, brothers really do war with each other. People tell the truth but aren&’t believed. Wars destroy the innocent. Lovers are parted. Parents endure the grief of losing children. Women suffer violence at the hands of men. The cleverest of people can be blind to what is really going on. The law of the land can contradict what you know to be just. Mysterious diseases devastate cities. Floods and fire tear lives apart. &“For the Greeks, the word muthos simply meant a traditional tale. In the twenty-first century, we have long left behind the political and religious framework in which these stories first circulated—but their power endures. Greek myths remain true for us because they excavate the very extremes of human experience: sudden, inexplicable catastrophe; radical reversals of fortune; and seemingly arbitrary events that transform lives. They deal, in short, in the hard, basic facts of the human condition.&” —from the Introduction  Roundup!: Western Writers of America presents great stories of the West from today's leading Western writers
By Paul Andrew Hutton. 2010
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. 2020Montana, Warts and All: the best from our first decade
By Pete Fromm, Maryanne Vollers, William Kittredge, Alan Kesselheim, Tim Cahill, John Clayton, Thomas Lee, Jeff Welsch, Malcolm Brooks, Glen Chamberlain, Daniel Person, Milana Marsenich, Allen Morris Jones, Scott McMillion, Jennifer Graf Groneberg, Fred Haefele, Jeff Hull, Ed Kemmick, Butch Larcombe, Myers Reece, Megan Ault Regnerus, Gail Schontzler, Craig Lancaster, John Byorth. 2015
All the world's reward: folktales told by five Scandinavian storytellers (NIF publications #v. 33)
By Reimund Kvideland, Henning K. Sehmsdorf. 1999
Collection of tales from the repertoires of five traditional storytellers, one from each of five principal Scandinavian tradition areas: Norway,…
Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. An introduction to each section places the tales and tellers in their cultural context, and short commentaries elucidate the ninety-eight individual texts. 1999My heroes have always been cowboys
By Lorraine Heath, Georgina Gentry, Teresa Bodwell. 2006
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. 2006The Portable western reader (Viking portable library)
By Various, William Kittredge. 1997
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. 1997Westward: a fictional history of the American West : 28 original stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Western Writers of America
By Dale L. Walker, Western Writers of America Staff. 2003
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. 2003Tales of the American West: the best of Spur award-winning authors
By Richard S. Wheeler. 2000
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. 2000Still wild: short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present
By Larry McMurtry. 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. 2000American West: twenty new stories
By Loren D. Estleman. 2001
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. 2001A 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. 1996Nineteen 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. 1994A century of great Western stories
By John Jakes. 2000
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. 2000Best of the West III: more stories that inspired classic western films (Best of the West Ser. #3)
By Bill Pronzini, Martin Greenberg. 1990
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