07-01

Hardcover

author/editor Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski (eds.) title The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories. [Edited with an Introduction and Headnotes ...] series/number - publisher William Morrow and Company Inc., New York year (pages) size 1997 (672) isbn 0-668-14783-6 source INT country USA original - cover artist {unknown / unbekannt} note Anthology head line / blurb -

Author	Title	Page
Tuska, Jon & Piekarski, Vicki	Introduction	XI
Grey, Zane	Monty Price's Nightingale	1
Bower, B. M.	On with the Dance	11
Brand, Max	The One-Way Trail	35
Morrow, Honoré Willsie	Breaking the Blue Roan	95
Roe, Vingie E	Shadows of Granite Ridge: At Kunman's Bend	116
LeMay, Alan	The Bells of San Juan	128
Wilson, Cherry	Ghost Town Trail	143
Farrell, Cliff	Wagon Wheel Exile	229
Flynn, T. T.	The Quickest Draw	256
Richter, Conrad	Valhalla	298
Blackburn, Tom W.	A Storm Comes to Crazy Horse	315
Shaw, C. K.	Three-Way Double Cross	323
Dawson, Peter	Spawn of Yuma	338
Colter, Eli	Marked Man	373
Frazee, Steve	Night Guns Calling	398
Williams, Jeanne	Brother Shotgun	420
Easton, Robert	Bonaparte McPhail	435
Barker, S. Omar	The Girl Who Busted Bronson	448
Newton, Dwight Bennett	Mule Tracks	461
Overholser, Wayne D.	Ride the Red Trail	480
Savage Jr., Les	The Ghost of Jean Lafitte	491
Athanas, Verne	Night Marshal	551
Olsen, T. V.	Journey of No Return	565
Johnson, Dorothy M.	Virginia City Winter	578
Haycox, Ernest	Deep in This Land	591
Wheeler, Richard S.	The Business of Dying	609
Coleman, Jane Candia	Moving On	618
Haseloff, Cynthia	Guipago's Vow	634

Infotext: These stories - many of which have not been seen since they were originally published in pulp magazines like Western Short Story, Adventure, or Ace High - reflect a defining aspect of the Western experience: the freedom to choose one's own road, and the willingness to sacrifice comfort, companionship, and safety to follow that road. Whether it is the solitary cattleman in Ernest Haycox's Deep in This Land, struggling against the elements and his own loneliness, or The Shifter in Max Brand's The One-Way Trail, trying to escape his outlaw past, the characters who populate these stories are dedicated to the possibility of change and aware of how difficult that change can be. One of the ironies of Western fiction's place in our culture is that it is perceived as men's fiction. But women made and continue to make a significant contribution to this genre, and this collection highlights some of their best work. Though often forced to disguise their sex through ambiguous pen names, women writers such as B. W. Bower, Honore Willsie Morrow, and Vingie E. Roe mastered the art of the Western short story and made it their own. The stories in this collection represent not only some of the finest writing in the Western genre but also some of the best fiction in American literature. They capture the sunburnt essence of the Frontier, from the Rio Grande to the Rocky Mountains, and are reminders of a time when opportunity was as wide as the horizon.

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