The wild, wild West
Subtitle: [thrilling tales by great authors]
By: edited by John Richard Stephens
Publisher: Fall River Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781435123748
Subjects: Social life and customs; Western stories; Manners and customs; Fiction
Notes: Subtitle from jacket.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- John Richard Stephens; title: Across Western plains and deserts  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Nevada's dead towns  -- John Muir; title: Life in a ghost town  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A deadly insult  -- Washington Irving; title: The human hunt  -- Washington Irving; title: In the heart of Indian country  -- Washington Irving; title: A Pawnee Knife Chief  -- James Fenimore Cooper; title: The card of a Choctaw Chief  -- Charles Dickens; title: The most beautiful part of America  -- Oscar Wilde; title: The rowdies of the rivers  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson; title: The rush for gold  -- Henry David Thoreau; title: Cowboys, soldiers and several murders  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: Stagecoach tales and Slade's untimely death  -- Mark Twain; title: Calistoga stagecoach robberies  -- Robert Louis Stevenson; title: A poet's Western journey  -- Walt Whitman; title: All Gold Canyon  -- Jack London; title: Twelve o'clock  -- Stephen Crane; title: The Caballero's way  -- O. Henry; title: Phantoms of peace  -- Zane Grey; title: From far Dakota's canyons  -- Walt Whitman; title: The revenge of Rain-in-the-Face  -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; title: Two alike and a lady  -- Jules Verne; title: A drift from Redwood Camp  -- Bret Harte; title: The stranger  -- Amrose Bierce; title: The horses of Bostil's Ford  -- Zane Grey; title: The hiding of Black Bill -- O. Henry.