Title: Stories of the Old West
First published: December 1999
Description: Collection contains:
Bret Harte: Muck-a-muck --
Right eye of the commander --
Luck of roaring camp --
Outcasts of Poker Flat --
Tennessee's partner --
Brown of Calaveras --
Mark Twain: Notorious frog of Calaveras County --
Jim Blaine and his grandfather's ram --
Scotty Briggs and the parson --
What stumped the bluejays (Jim Baker's bluejay yarn) --
Californian's tale --
Ambrose Bierce: Holy terror --
Secret of Macarger's Gulch --
Night-doings at "Deadman's" --
Stranger --
Owen Wister: Specimen Jones --
Serenade at Siskiyou --
Second Missouri compromise --
Sharon's choice --
Frederick Remington: Sergeant of the orphan troop --
Sun-down Leflare's warm spot --
Sun-down's higher self --
When a document is official --
Billy's tearless woe --
Stephen Crane: A man and some others --
Bride comes to Yellow Sky --
Twelve O'clock --
Moonlight on the snow --
Jack London: All gold canyon --
Frank Norris: Passing of Cock-eye Blacklock --
Two hearts that beat as one --
Stewart Edward White: Girl who got rattled --
Prospector --
Ole Virginia --
Corner in horses --
Two-man gun --
O. Henry: Ransom of Mack --
Call loan --
Princess and the puma --
Passing of Black Eagle --
Departmental case --
Last of the troubadours --
Mary Austin: The land --
Case of conscience --
Ploughed lands --
Return of Mr. Wills --
The Fakir --
Readjustment --
House of Offence --
Walking woman.
Subjects: Western stories, Gold mines and mining, Ranch life, Fiction, West (u.s.), fiction, Fiction, westerns