Originally published in the UK as The Mammoth book of the western, 1991
Contents:
Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte Way Out West / Mark Twain A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop / Frederic Remington The Caballero's Way / O. Henry The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane On the Divide / Willa Cather Bad Penny / B.M. Bower All Gold Canyon / Jack London The Last Thunder Song / John G. Neihardt Under the Lion's Paw / Hamlin Garland The Ranger / Zane Grey Wine on the Desert / Max Brand At the Sign of the Last Chance / Owen Wister Early Americana / Conrad Richter The Wind and the Snow of Winter / Walter Van Thilburg Clark When You Carry the Star / Ernest Haycox The Young Warrior / Oliver la Farge The Big Sky / A.B. Guthrie Command / James Warner Bellah Burn Him Out / Frank Bonham The Colt / Wallace Stegner A Man Called Horse / Dorothy M. Johnson Great Medicine / Steve Frazee Emmet Dutrow / Jack Schaefer River Polak / Mari Sandoz Blood on the Sun / Thomas Thompson Beecher Island / Wayne D. Overholser Desert Command / Elmer Kelton The Bandit / Loren D. Estleman There Will Be Peace in Korea / Larry McMurtry C.B. and Q. / Edward Dorn The Man to Send Rain Clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko The Waterfowl Tree / William Kittredge Days of Heaven / Rick Bass Hole in the Day / Christopher Tilghman The Hundred Best Western Novels The Hundred Best Western Short Stories