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- A Date Which Will Live in Infamy ed. Brian M. Thomsen & Martin H. Greenberg (Cumberland House 1581822227, Sep 2001, $16.95, 352pp, tp); Original anthology of alternate-history Pearl Harbor stories.
- Modern Short Stories ed. H. A. Treble, M.A. (University of London Press, 1931, 158pp, hc); [Endre]
- 9 • Watchers of the Mud • F. St. Mars • ss; from Off the Beaten Track, 1920.
- 42 • The Tennis Balls [Baron de Rosny] • Stanley J. Weyman • ss; from Memoirs of a Minister of France, 1895.
- 64 • The Gift of the Magi • O. Henry • ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906; from The Four Million, 1906.
- 72 • The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman • John Buchan • ss; from The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1915.
- 85 • “Scally”: The Story of a Perfect Gentleman • Ian Hay • nv The Saturday Evening Post Jun 13 ’14
- 127 • The Ebony Box • A. E. W. Mason • nv The Strand Sep ’03
- Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball ed. Dennis Trudell (Breakaway Books 1558215042, Sep ’96, $23.00, 360pp, hc); Information from publisher’s catalog.
- The Big Book of Western Action Stories ed. Jon Tuska (Barricade Books 1-56980-048-0, 1995, $24.00, 559pp, hc); Anthology of 20 western stories, one original.
- 11 • Introduction • Jon Tuska • in
- 29 • The Code • Ernest Haycox • ss The Frontier Jun ’26
- 45 • The Strange Ride of Perry Woodstock • Max Brand™ • na *; first published abridged as “Death Rides Behind”, Dime Western Mar ’33.
- 107 • Lost Dutchman O’Riley’s Luck [“To Save a Girl: or Lost Dutchman O’Riley’s Gold”] • Alan LeMay • ss Colliers Sep 27 ’30
- 125 • Land Without Mercy • Wayne D. Overholser • ss Big-Book Western Magazine Aug ’42
- 133 • Gun Fog • William Colt MacDonald • na Big-Book Western Magazine Nov ’35
- 201 • Back Trail [“Hunted Wolf!”] • T. T. Flynn • ss Dime Western Magazine Sep ’49
- 221 • Bandit Lawman • Luke Short • nv Big-Book Western Magazine Mar-Apr ’37
- 247 • There’s Hell on the Dodge Trail • Bill Gulick • ss Big-Book Western Magazine Feb ’42
- 261 • Showdown at Anchor [“A Man for Hell’s Canyon”] • Peter Dawson • nv Fifteen Western Tales Nov ’47
- 295 • Powder Smoke—Guest of Faro Flats • W. Ryerson Johnson • ss Ace-High Western Stories Jul ’39
- 311 • Trail of the Lonely Gun • Les Savage, Jr. • na Action Stories Spr ’46
- 357 • Wild Was the River • Giff Cheshire • nv New Western Magazine May ’46
- 379 • Saddlebum’s Bondage • Dwight Bennett Newton • ss New Western Magazine Sep ’45
- 389 • Border Man • Frank Bonham • nv Dime Western Magazine Jan ’50
- 421 • The Feminine Touch • Dan Cushman • ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine Oct ’52
- 433 • Banker Clayton’s Interest • Robert Easton • ss Colliers Dec 9 ’50
- 441 • Lawmen Die Sudden • Will Cook • nv Big-Book Western Magazine Nov ’53
- 475 • Mama Rides the Norther • Lewis B. Patten • ss Thrilling Western Mar ’53
- 489 • The Victim • Ed Gorman • ss *
- 503 • Death Rides This Trail • Steve Frazee • na Western Story Magazine Oct ’53
- 553 • Suggested Further Reading • Misc. Material • bi
- The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories ed. Jon Tuska & Vicki Piekarski (Morrow 0-688-14783-6, Mar ’97, $32.00, 672pp, hc)
- • Introduction • Jon Tuska & Vicki Piekarski • in
- 1 • Monty Price’s Nightingale • Zane Grey • ss The Popular Magazine May 7 ’15
- 11 • On with the Dance • B. M. Bower • nv Short Stories Jan 10 ’34
- 35 • The One-Way Trail [as by George Owen Baxter] • Max Brand • na Western Story Magazine Feb 4 ’22
- 95 • Breaking the Blue Roan • Honoré Willsie Morrow • nv Everybody’s Magazine Dec ’21
- 116 • Shadows of Granite Ridge: At Kunman’s Bend • Vingie E. Roe • ss The Popular Magazine Jun 7 ’15
- 128 • The Bells of San Juan • Alan LeMay • ss Adventure Nov 15 ’27
- 143 • Ghost Town Trail • Cherry Wilson • na Western Story Magazine Oct 25 ’30
- 229 • Wagon Wheel Exile • Cliff Farrell • nv Ace-High Magazine Jun ’37
- 256 • The Quickest Draw • T. T. Flynn • nv Western Story Magazine Dec 10 ’38
- 298 • Valhalla • Conrad Richter • ss Blue Book Dec ’34
- 315 • A Storm Comes to Crazy Horse • Tom W. Blackburn • ss 10 Story Western Magazine Nov ’40
- 323 • Three-Way Double Cross • C. K. Shaw • ss Western Story Magazine Jun 13 ’42
- 338 • Spawn of Yuma • Peter Dawson • nv Western Story Magazine May 11 ’40
- 373 • Marked Man • Eli Colter • nv Western Story Magazine Aug ’48
- 398 • Night Guns Calling • Steve Frazee • nv Fifteen Western Tales Sep ’48
- 420 • Brother Shotgun • Jeanne Williams • ss Ranch Romances Jun 14 ’57
- 435 • Bonaparte McPhail • Robert Easton • ss Colliers Aug 26 ’44
- 448 • The Girl Who Busted Broncos • S. Omar Barker • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16 ’50
- 461 • Mule Tracks [“Peaker Kid”] • Dwight Bennett Newton • ss .44 Western Magazine Nov ’53
- 480 • Ride the Red Trail • Wayne D. Overholser • ss Fifteen Western Tales May ’54
- 491 • The Ghost of Jean Lafitte [“Tonight the Phanthoms Ride!”] • Les Savage, Jr. • na Action Stories Fll ’45
- 551 • Night Marshall • Verne Athanas • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 2 ’60
- 565 • Journey of No Return • T. V. Olsen • ss Ranch Romances Apr #3 ’56
- 578 • Virginia City Winter • Dorothy M. Johnson • ss Flame on the Frontier: Short Stories of Pioneer Women, 1948
- 591 • Deep in This Land • Ernest Haycox • ss Playboy Jan ’90
- 609 • The Business of Dying • Richard S. Wheeler • ss *
- 618 • Moving On • Jane Candia Coleman • ss *
- 634 • Guipago’s Vow • Cynthia Haseloff • ss *
- Shadow of the Lariat: A Treasurey of the Frontier ed. Jon Tuska (Carroll & Graf 0786702567, Nov ’95, $25.00, 564pp, hc)
- xi • Introduction • Jon Tuska • in
- 1 • The Great Slave • Zane Grey • nv Ladies Home Journal Dec ’20
- 16 • Riders of the Purple • Walt Coburn • nv Lariat Story Magazine, 1925
- 46 • The House of Whispering Shadows • Eugene Cunningham • nv Frontier Stories Feb ’28
- 70 • Lawman’s Heart • Max Brand • nv Star Western, 1934
- 112 • The Pie River [“The Pistol Prodigal”] • T. T. Flynn • nv Western Trails, 1937
- 146 • Lawman’s Debt [as by Alan M. Emley] • Alan LeMay • ss Dime Western Magazine, 1934
- 157 • Stage Station • Ernest Haycox • ss Colliers, 1939
- 170 • Brand of Justice • Luke Short • ss Country Home Magazine Feb ’39
- 181 • Where Trails Divide [“Epitaph for an Unmarked Grave”] • Tom W. Blackburn • ss Star Western, 1939
- 191 • The Ghost of Miguel • Barry Cord • ss Lariat Story Magazine Jan ’45
- 207 • The Beast of Cañada Diablo [“The Ghost of Gun-Runners’ Rancho”] • Les Savage, Jr. • na Lariat Story Magazine May ’46; in slightly different form.
- 271 • The Conestoga Pirate • Dan Cushman • na Frontier Stories, 1944
- 316 • Reach High, Tophand! • Dwight Bennett Newton • nv Lariat Story Magazine, 1947
- 347 • Furnace Flat [“Gun-Dog of Furnace Flat”] • Frank Bonham • nv New Western Magazine Dec ’48
- 380 • Colt-Cure for Woolly Fever • Peter Dawson • nv Big-Book Western Magazine, 1949
- 407 • Stage to Death • Wayne D. Overholser • ss Lariat Story Magazine, 1944
- 427 • Stagecoach Pass • Giff Cheshire • ss Blue Book Jan ’50
- 439 • Payroll of the Dead [“Knife in the Back”] • Steve Frazee • nv Complete Western Book Magazine, 1957
- 474 • The Clown [“Boy with a Gun”] • Verne Athanas • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 24 ’61
- 486 • The Silent Outcast • Lauran Paine • nv Double Action Western Jan ’54
- 507 • Gun This Man Down • Lewis B. Patten • nv Dime Western Magazine, 1954
- 544 • The Streets of Laredo • Will Henry • ss Western Roundup, ed. Nelson Nye, Macmillan, 1961
- 557 • Selected Further Reading • Misc. Material • bi
- Stories of the Golden West: Book Three ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, May 2002, hc)
- • Tappan’s Burro • Zane Grey • nv Ladies Home Journal Jun ’23
- • Jargan • Max Brand • nv Short Stories Nov 25 ’22
- • The Trail to Crazy Man • Louis L’Amour • na West Jul ’48
- Western Stories: A Chronological Anthology ed. Jon Tuska (Gramercy 0-517-18659-4, 1999, $5.95, 305pp, hc); Abridged from The Western Story: A Chronological Anthology (University of Nebraska Press 1995).
- vii • Introduction • Jon Tuska • in
- • PART ONE THE EAST GOES WEST
- 6 • Hank’s Woman • Owen Wister • ss Harper’s Weekly Aug 27, 1892
- 19 • The Californian’s Tale • Mark Twain • ss, 1893
- 29 • A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop • Frederic Remington • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1897
- 42 • Three Vagabonds of Trinidad • Bret Harte • ss, 1900
- 55 • The Last Thunder Song • John G. Neihardt • ss, 1904
- • PART TWO FOUNDERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
- 65 • The Wild Land • Willa Cather • ss, 1913
- 78 • The Desert Crucible • Zane Grey • nv Argosy May ’15 (+4)
- 92 • Werewolf • Max Brand™ • na Western Story Magazine Dec 18 ’26
- 153 • Bad Penny • B. M. Bower • ss Argosy Dec 2 ’33
- 170 • Blizzard • Ernest Haycox • ss Colliers Feb 25 ’39
- • PART THREE STORYTELLERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
- 189 • Retirement Day • Peter Dawson • ss Western Tales Feb ’42
- 205 • What Color Is Heaven? [“Those Fighting Gringo Devils”] • T. T. Flynn • nv Dime Western Magazine May ’42; original ending.
- 232 • The Wind and the Snow of Winter • Walter Van Tilburg Clark • ss The Yale Review Win ’45
- 245 • A Man Called Horse • Dorothy M. Johnson • ss Colliers Jan 7 ’50
- 260 • The Shadow in Renegade Basin [“Tombstones for Gringos”] • Les Savage, Jr. • nv Frontier Stories Sum ’50
- 297 • War Party • Louis L’Amour • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 13 ’59
- The Western Story: A Chronological Anthology ed. Jon Tuska (University of Nebraska Press 0-803-24428-2, Sep ’95, $35.00, 404pp, hc); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Introduction • Jon Tuska • in
- • PART ONE THE EAST GOES WEST
- • Hank’s Woman • Owen Wister • ss Harper’s Weekly Aug 27, 1892
- • The Californian’s Tale • Mark Twain • ss, 1893
- • A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop • Frederic Remington • ss Harper’s Monthly Aug, 1897
- • Three Vagabonds of Trinidad • Bret Harte • ss, 1900
- • The Last Thunder Song • John G. Neihardt • ss, 1904
- • PART TWO FOUNDERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
- • The Wild Land • Willa Cather • ss, 1913
- • The Desert Crucible • Zane Grey • nv Argosy May ’15 (+4)
- • Werewolf • Max Brand™ • na Western Story Magazine Dec 18 ’26
- • Bad Penny • B. M. Bower • ss Argosy Dec 2 ’33
- • Blizzard • Ernest Haycox • ss Colliers Feb 25 ’39
- • PART THREE STORYTELLERS OF THE GOLDEN AGE
- • Retirement Day • Peter Dawson • ss Western Tales Feb ’42
- • What Color Is Heaven? [“Those Fighting Gringo Devils”] • T. T. Flynn • nv Dime Western Magazine May ’42; original ending.
- • The Wind and the Snow of Winter • Walter Van Tilburg Clark • ss The Yale Review Win ’45
- • A Man Called Horse • Dorothy M. Johnson • ss Colliers Jan 7 ’50
- • The Shadow in Renegade Basin [“Tombstones for Gringos”] • Les Savage, Jr. • nv Frontier Stories Sum ’50
- • PART FOUR VISIONS OF DREAMS AND DANCING
- • War Party • Louis L’Amour • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 13 ’59
- • The Tallest Indian in Toltepec • Will Henry • ss, 1966
- • Desert Command • Elmer Kelton • ss, 1980
- • Jacob’s Journal • T. V. Olsen • ss Louis L’Amour Western Magazine Nov ’94
- • Redemption at Dry Creek • Cynthia Haseloff • ss, 1994
- • Suggested Further Reading • Misc. Material • bi
- The Best American Short Stories 1983 ed. Anne Tyler & Shannon Ravenel (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-34844-7, 1983, $7.95, 332pp, tp)
- ix • Publisher’s Note • Misc. Material • pr
- xi • Introduction • Anne Tyler • in
- 1 • Hard to Be Good • Bill Barich • nv New Yorker Dec 20 ’82
- 25 • The Dignity of Life • Carol Bly • nv Ploughshares, 1982
- 48 • A Change of Season • James Bond • ss Epoch, 1982
- 68 • Where I’m Calling From • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Mar 15 ’82
- 84 • “Ollie, Oh...” • Carolyn Chute • ss Ploughshares, 1982
- 99 • My Mistress • Laurie Colwin • ss Playboy Mar ’82
- 117 • The Count and the Princess • Joseph Epstein • nv The Hudson Review Spr ’82
- 141 • Scales • Louise Erdrich • ss North American Review, 1982
- 155 • The Professor’s Houses • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Nov 1 ’82
- 161 • Sur • Ursula K. Le Guin • ss New Yorker Feb 1 ’82
- 178 • Graveyard Day • Bobbie Ann Mason • ss Ascent, 1982
- 191 • Victrola • Wright Morris • ss New Yorker Apr 12 ’82
- 201 • Reunion • Julie Schumacher • ss California Quarterly, 1982
- 210 • Best Quality Glass Company, New York • Sharon Sheehe Stark • ss Prairie Schooner, 1982
- 222 • Colorado • Robert Taylor, Jr. • ss The Ohio Review, 1982
- 236 • Starlight • Marian Thurm • ss New Yorker May 10 ’82
- 249 • Deaths of Distant Friends • John Updike • ss New Yorker Jun 7 ’82
- 255 • Reunion • Guy Vanderhaeghe • ss Saturday Night, 1982
- 269 • Beebee • Diane Vreuls • ss Shenandoah, 1982
- 285 • Firstborn • Larry Woiwode • ss New Yorker Nov 22 ’82
- The Best American Short Stories of the Century ed. John Updike & Katrina Kenison (Houghton Mifflin 0-395-84367-7, Apr 2000, $18.95, 864pp, tp); Contents from Amazon.com.
- • Foreword • Misc. Material • fw
- • Introduction • John Updike • in
- • Zelig • Benjamin Rosenblatt • ss The Bellman Aug 28 ’15
- • Little Selves • Mary Lerner • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’16
- • A Jury of Her Peers • Susan Glaspell • nv Every Week Mar 5 ’17
- • The Other Woman • Sherwood Anderson • ss The Little Review May-Jun ’20
- • The Golden Honeymoon • Ring Lardner • ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’22
- • Blood-Burning Moon • Jean Toomer • ss Prairie Mar-Apr ’23
- • The Killers • Ernest Hemingway • ss Scribner’s Mar ’27
- • Double Birthday • Willa Cather • nv The Forum Feb ’29
- • Wild Plums • Grace Stone Coates • ss The Frontier Mar ’29
- • Theft • Katherine Anne Porter • ss The Gyroscope Nov ’29
- • That Evening Sun Go Down • William Faulkner • ss The American Mercury Mar ’31
- • Here We Are • Dorothy Parker • ss Cosmopolitan Mar ’31
- • Crazy Sunday • F. Scott Fitzgerald • ss The American Mercury Oct ’32
- • My Dead Brother Comes to America • Alexander Godin • ss
- • Resurrection of a Life • William Saroyan • ss
- • Christmas Gift • Robert Penn Warren • ss The Virginia Quarterly Review, 1937
- • Bright and Morning Star • Richard Wright • nv
- • The Hitch-Hikers • Eudora Welty • ss The Southern Review Aut ’39
- • The Peach Stone • Paul Horgan • ss The Yale Review Sum ’42
- • “That in Aleppo Once...” • Vladimir Nabokov • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’43
- • The Interior Castle • Jean Stafford • ss The Partisan Review Nov-Dec ’46
- • Miami-New York • Martha Gellhorn • ss Harper’s May ’47
- • The Second Tree from the Corner • E. B. White • ss New Yorker May 31 ’47
- • The Farmer’s Children • Elizabeth Bishop • ss Harper’s Bazaar Feb ’48
- • Death of a Favorite • J. F. Powers • ss New Yorker Jul 1 ’50
- • The Resemblance Between a Violin Case and a Coffin • Tennessee Williams • ss Flair Feb ’50
- • The Country Husband • John Cheever • nv New Yorker Nov 20 ’54
- • Greenleaf • Flannery O’Connor • ss The Kenyon Review, 1957
- • The Ledge • Lawrence Sargent Hall • ss The Hudson Review Win ’59
- • Defender of the Faith • Philip Roth • nv New Yorker Mar 14 ’59
- • Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers • Stanley Elkin • nv Perspective Win ’61
- • The German Refugee • Bernard Malamud • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 14 ’63
- • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? • Joyce Carol Oates • ss Epoch Fll ’66
- • The Rotifer • Mary Ladd Gavell • ss Psychiatry May ’67
- • Gold Coast • James Alan McPherson • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’68
- • The Key • Isaac Bashevis Singer • ss
- • A City of Churches • Donald Barthelme • ss
- • How to Win • Rosellen Brown • ss Massachusetts Review v14 #4 ’74
- • Roses, Rhododendron • Alice Adams • ss New Yorker Jan 27 ’75
- • Verona: A Young Woman Speaks • Harold Brodkey • ss Esquire Jul ’77
- • A Silver Dish • Saul Bellow • nv New Yorker Sep 25 ’78
- • Gesturing • John Updike • ss Playboy Jan ’79
- • The Shawl • Cynthia Ozick • ss New Yorker May 26 ’80
- • Where I’m Calling From • Raymond Carver • ss New Yorker Mar 15 ’82
- • Janus • Ann Beattie • ss New Yorker May 27 ’85
- • The Way We Live Now • Susan Sontag • ss New Yorker Nov 24 ’86
- • The Things They Carried • Tim O’Brien • ss Esquire Aug ’86
- • Meneseteung • Alice Munro • nv New Yorker, 1988
- • You’re Ugly, Too • Lorrie Moore • ss New Yorker Jul 3 ’89
- • I Want to Live! • Thom Jones • ss Harper’s Aug ’92
- • In the Gloaming • Alice Elliott Dark • ss New Yorker May 3 ’93
- • Proper Library • Carolyn Ferrell • ss
- • Birthmates • Gish Jen • ss
- • Soon • Pam Durban • ss The Southern Review, 1996
- • The Half-Skinned Steer • Annie Proulx • ss Atlantic Monthly Nov ’97
- • The Best Girlfriend You Never Had • Pam Houston • ss Other Voices, 1998
- • Biographical Notes • Misc. Material • bg
- • Index of the Best American Short Stories, 1915—1999 • Misc. Material • ix
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