TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hillerman,Tony
TI  - The Best of the West: an anthology of classic writing from the American West 
SN  - 0060166649 :
AV  - PS561 .B48 1991
U1  - 818/.08 20
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Literary collections
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Pt. 1; In the Beginning . .; 1; New Mexico's Mystery Stone; Dixie L. Perkins; 2; The Message in the Bottle; George Winship; 3; Drake's Brass Plaque; James D. Hart; 4; The Real Manila Galleon; 5; The Long Way Home; Meriwether Lewis; 6; The Stone Thoen Found; Frank Thompson; 7; Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville; Garcia Lopez de Cardenas; 8; "The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth"; John Wesley Powell; 9; Fifty Leagues of Silver; Fray Alonso de Benevides; 10; Captain Jose Zuniga's Report; 11; Are We Prisoners of War?; Zebulon Montgomery Pike; 12; The Russians in California; William A. Slacum --; Pt. 2; The Original Westerners; 13; Ishi, The Last One Left Alive; Theodora Kroeber; 14; The Man Who Killed the Deer; Frank Waters; 15; The Pacifist Warrior; Jack Schaefer; 16; The Way to Rainy Mountain; N. Scott Momaday; 17; Colter's Run; H. M. Chittenden; 18; "Can You Blot Out Those Stars?"; Myron Angel; 19; "I Will Fight No More Forever" --; Pt. 3; The Navajos; 20; The Murder of Narbona; Franc Johnson Newcomb; 21; Barboncito's Plea; 22; The Hogan; Gladys Reichard; 23; Laughing Boy; Oliver La Farge; 24; The Death of Old Man Hat; Walter Dyk --; Pt. 4; The Hispanos; 25; The Muleteers; Max Morehead; 26; Brothers of the Light; Marta Weigle; 27; Blessing the Animals; John A. Lomax; 28; Ramona; Helen Hunt Jackson; 29; A Santa Fe Fandango; George Frederick Ruxton --; Pt. 5; Frontier Life; 30; The Burning Bush; A. W. Whipple; 31; A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball; Alexander Kelly McClure; 32; Christmas in Round Valley; John Wesley Clampitt; 33; "A Rather Pretentious Sod House"; Everett Dick; 34; "Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death . . ."; George Yount; 35; The Bashful Trapper; Jacob Fowler; 36; "And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day"; Alan Bosworth; 37; The $175,000 Sack of Flour; 38; How Americans Get Ahead; William Shepherd; 39; J. C. Penney's First Day; Norman Beasley; 40; Wolf Willow; Wallace Stegner; 41; The Melting Pot; Robert Laxalt; 42; Basques in Nevada; Robert Laxalt; 43; Nails and Whiskey; Alexander Toponce; 44; Death Valley Scotty's Story; Eleanor Jordan Houston; 45; Burial Customs at Fort Pierre; Thaddeus Culbertson --; Pt. 6; Cowboys; 46; The Harvard Cowboy; Richard Trimble; 47; The Spree at the End of the Trail; 48; Charlie Siringo's Flirtation; Charlie Siringo; 49; "I Threw My Timid Friend a Bisquit"; Theodore Baughman; 50; The Cowboy Strike; David Dary; 51; The First Rodeos; Charles Nordhoff; 52; The Chuck Wagon; Eugene Manlove Rhodes; 53; When You Call Me That, Smile!; Owen Wister --; Pt. 7; Tall Tales and Practical Jokes; 54; The Travelling Stones, and Other Such Affairs; Duncan Emrich; 55; The First Jumping Frog; 56; How Trout Survive Mountain Winters; 57; "I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately"; J. Ross Browne; 58; I Paint the Truth Just as It Is; J. Ross Browne; 59; The Buffalo Corral and Milking Pen; James Stevens; 60; The Greasewood Golf Course; Dick Wick Hall; 61; The Badger Fight; Bill Oden; 62; "Anything That Will Make Money" --; Pt. 8; Characters; 63; "Genial If Rambunctious"; Marthy "Calamity" Jane Cannary; 64; How the Ski Came to Snow Country; Robert Laxalt; 65; The Emperor of California; Joshua Norton; 66; Schlatter the Healer; Agnes Morley Cleaveland; 67; Law West of the Pecos; C. L. Sonnichsen; 68; How Phoenix Got Its Name; Lawrence Clark Powell; 69; Uncle Dick Wootton; Agnes Morley Cleaveland; 70; Culture Comes to Virginia City; R. D. Miller --; Pt. 9; The Mines; 71; Gold Only Waiting to Be Gathered Up; Paul Horgan; 72; "Something Shining in the Bottom of the Ditch"; James W. Marshall; 73; "Men Living Like Coyotes"; J. Ross Browne; 74; Sutro's Tunnel; 75; Growing Up in Bonanza Town; John Taylor Wa
N2  - In this extraordinary treasury, Tony Hillerman, himself a beloved chronicler of the American West, has gathered over 140 remarkable texts from and about the West. Though these selections vary widely in form - from diaries to news dispatches to travelogues to short stories to stone inscriptions - every one vividly evokes some aspect of the vast, rugged landscape west of the Mississippi and the unique souls who inhabit it. From white men's first tentative forays into the West to the highways that crisscross today's West, this anthology spans almost five centuries, celebrating many myths of a legendary landscape and exploding many more. Every facet of the Western experience is crystallized here - Indians, cowboys, Latinos, frontier justice, homesteaders, the Pony Express, the mines, the railroads, the military, and far, far more. Included are such well-known documents as Chief Joseph's surrender speech and Colonel Travis's letter from the Alamo, as well as less famous but equally evocative texts like Custer's last letter home, the Tombstone Epitaph's report of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and a thoroughly bone-chilling account of a midwinter stagecoach ride. Anyone who has ever felt the powerful allure of the American West will find Best of the West endlessly captivating reading
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