All-Time Favorite Cowboy Stories

by Kronzek, Rochelle

• ISBN13: 9780486469065
• ISBN10: 0486469069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-19
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

A corral of cattle rustlers, outlaws, and other desperadoes awaits in this bronco-busting anthology of 20 cowboy tales set in the Old West. The roundup includes a 1902 story by Owen Wister excerpted fromThe Virginian which shaped the Western fiction genre and more by such favorites as Zane Grey, O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Frederick Remington.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Owen Winster

  Enter the Man (from The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains, 1902)

Theodore Roosevelt

  In Cowboy Land (from Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, 1913)

O. Henry

  The Caballero's Way (from Heart of the West, 1907)

Zane Grey

  Cowboy Golf (from The Light of the Western Stars, 1914)

  A Gentleman of the Range (from The Light of the Western Stars)

Frederic Remington

  Life in the Cattle Country (from Collier's magazine, 1899)

Andy Adams

  Justice in the Saddle (from The Outlet, 1905)

Stuart N. Lake

  At the O. K. Corral (from Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, 1931)

Eugene Manlove Rhodes

  The Trouble Man (from The Saturday Evening Post, 1909)

Bertha Muzzy Bower

  The Trail Herd (from Cow Country, 1921)

Edgar Beecher Bronson

  End of the Trail (from Reminiscences of a Ranchman, 1908)

  Triggerfingeritis (from The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier, 1910)

Mark Twain

  Roughing It, 1872 (from Chapter 24 [excerpt])

Max Brand

  A Horse in Need (from Ronicky Doone, 1921)

Stewart Edward White

  On Cowboys (from The Mountains, 1904)

William MacLeod Raine

  A Shot from Ambush (from Mavericks, 1912)

Nat Love

  The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, 1907 (from Chapter 13 [excerpt])

Frank V. Webster

  After Stray Cattle (from Cowboy Dave: or, The Roundup at Rolling River, 1915)