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Stories of the Old West [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 398 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 250x171x29 mm, kaal: 753 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2022
  • Kirjastus: The Lyons Press
  • ISBN-10: 1493066412
  • ISBN-13: 9781493066414
  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 398 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 250x171x29 mm, kaal: 753 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2022
  • Kirjastus: The Lyons Press
  • ISBN-10: 1493066412
  • ISBN-13: 9781493066414

Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin’ helpin’ of tales of America’s frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range warfare, and everything else that reflects our fascination with our Western heritage from its earliest untamed era to the dawn of the 20th Century. Contributors include Zane Grey, Buffalo Bill Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, Calamity Jane, Stewart Edward White, Frederic Remington, Ned Buntline, Mark Twain (“Roughing It”), Thomas North, Willa Cather, Helen Cody Wetmore, O. Henry, Bret Harte and Owen Wister, to name only a few.

Introduction ix
1 The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains
1(12)
Owen Wister
2 Riders of the Purple Sage
13(8)
Zane Grey
3 The Coming of Cassidy
21(9)
Clarence E. Mulford
4 The Rustler of Wind River
30(9)
George W. Ogden
5 The Caballero's Way
39(9)
O. Henry
6 The Sunset Trail
48(9)
Alfred Henry Lewis
7 The Deputy Sheriff of Comanche County
57(9)
Edgar Rice Burroughs
8 A Voice in the Wilderness
66(13)
Grace Livingstone Hill
9 Wild Bill's Last Trail
79(9)
Ned Buntline
10 Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
88(12)
Theodore Roosevelt
11 Roughing It
100(8)
Mark Twain
12 The Log of a Cowboy
108(5)
Andy Adams
13 Arizona Nights
113(9)
Stewart Edward White
14 The Two-Gun Man
122(6)
Charles Alden Seltzer
15 The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras
128(6)
Joaquin Miller
16 The Last of the Great Scouts
134(7)
Helen Cody Wetmore
17 A Rescue
141(13)
William MacLeod Raine
18 A Rodeo at Los Ojos
154(9)
Frederic Remington
19 Gold-Mounted Guns
163(6)
F. R. Buckley
20 Love Finds Its Hour
169(6)
B. M. Bowers
21 Catching a Maverick
175(4)
Frank Benton
22 Hearts and Crosses
179(9)
O. Henry
23 The Cow-Boy
188(2)
Bill Nye
24 On Cowboys
190(8)
Stewart Edward White
25 Wild Bill Hickok
198(8)
Emerson Hough
26 Lassiter
206(8)
Zane Grey
27 In Search of Christmas
214(22)
Owen Wister
28 Deadwood Dick, the Road-Agent
236(5)
Edward L. Wheeler
29 Jesse James and the Border Brigands
241(6)
J.A. Dacus
30 My Life and Adventures
247(4)
Calamity Jane
31 The Cave of Gold
251(9)
Everett McNeill
32 The Wild Man of the West
260(14)
R. M. Ballantyne
33 Two Boys in Wyoming: A Tale of Adventure
274(7)
Edward Ellis
34 Stampede!
281(8)
Andy Adams
35 Henry Plummer, Audacious Desperado
289(9)
Emerson Hough
36 In Cowboy Land
298(7)
Theodore Roosevelt
37 Adventures on the Trail
305(5)
Nat Love (Deadwood Dick)
38 On the Santa Fe Trail
310(20)
Henry Inman
W.F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody
39 The Cowboy and the Shrinking Frontier
330(7)
Emerson Hough
40 Buffalo!
337(11)
Francis Parkman Jr.
41 Five Years in Texas
348(6)
Thomas North
42 On the Trail of Deserters
354(19)
Captain Robert Goldthwaite Carter
43 Denver
373(7)
Charles E. Young
44 Hanged in a Hog Pen
380(5)
John W. Cook
Sources 385
Steven D. Price is the author or editor of more than forty books. His compilations include The Smartest Things Ever Said, The Dumbest Things Ever Said, The Best Advice Ever Given, and the best-selling The Whole Horse Catalog. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he holds a JD from Yale Law School. He is also a resident of New York City and a keen observer of human achievement and folly.

Tom McCarthy is an award-winning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, Connecticut.