The Arbor House treasury of great Western stories
By: edited by Bill Pronzini and Martin Greenberg ; [introduction by John Jakes].
Contributors: Pronzini, Bill.; Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Publisher: Arbor House
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.) -- Fiction; American fiction -- 20th century; Western stories
Notes: "Priam books"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: 11 · Introduction · John Jakes · in; title: · Part One: The First Fifty Years; title: 25 · Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral · Mark Twain · ss, 1899; title: 33 · How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar · Bret Harte · ss, 1902; title: 46 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Colliers Nov 26, 1898; title: 72 · The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo · Gertrude Atherton · ss, 1902; title: 78 · The Reformation of Calliope · O. Henry · ss; title: 86 · Timberline · Owen Wister · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 7 ’08; title: 97 · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Nov ’05; title: 115 · The Honk-Honk Breed · Stewart Edward White · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul ’07; title: 124 · The Trouble Man · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 20 ’09; title: 141 · From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s Aug ’26; title: 164 · Ananias Green · B. M. Bower · ss, 1910; title: 175 · The Hold-Up · Clarence E. Mulford · ss, 1913; title: 188 · Science at Heart’s Desire [Dan Anderson] · Emerson Hough · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 ’04; title: 199 · Last Warning · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories Jan 10 ’43; title: 210 · The Weight of Obligation · Rex Beach · ss, 1982; title: 229 · Dust Storm · Max Brand · ss Colliers Apr 3 ’37; title: · Part Two: The Second Fifty Years; title: 245 · Top Hand · Luke Short · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 30 ’43; title: 257 · High Wind · Ernest Haycox · ss, 1934; title: 271 · The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Colliers Jul 5 ’52; title: 285 · First Principal · A. B. Guthrie, Jr. · ss Gunsmoke, 1953; title: 294 · I Woke Up Wicked · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss, 1955; title: 308 · Sergeant Houck · Jack Schaefer · ss Colliers Jul 14 ’51; title: 327 · The Woman at Apache Wells [“Lobo Loot”] · John Jakes · ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine Sep ’52; title: 335 · The Boy Who Smiled · Elmore Leonard · ss Gunsmoke Jun ’53; title: 347 · Hired Gun · William R. Cox · ss Argosy, 1951; title: 357 · Due Process [“All Legal and Proper”] · Steve Frazee · ss EQMM Mar ’60; title: 374 · Riverboat Fighter · Brian Garfield · ss They Opened the West, ed. Tom W. Blackburn, Doubleday, 1967; title: 386 · Snowblind · Evan Hunter · ss Gunsmoke Aug ’53; title: 395 · Sweet Cactus Wine · Marcia Muller · ss *; title: 405 · The Hanging Man · Bill Pronzini · ss EQMM Aug 12 ’81; title: 418 · The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Blue Book Jun ’50; title: 429 · Rainbow Captive · Stephen Overholser · ss Antæus #25 ’77; title: 440 · The Trap · Clay Fisher · ss, 1962