The Best of the West: an anthology of classic writing from the American West
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New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [1991].
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9780060166649, 0060166649, 9780060923525, 0060923520
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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 railroad, 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. Tony Hillerman has gathered over 140 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.
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xvi, 528 pages ; 25 cm
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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 railroad, 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. Tony Hillerman has gathered over 140 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.
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Hillerman, T. (1991). The Best of the West: an anthology of classic writing from the American West. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Hillerman, Tony. 1991. The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Hillerman, Tony, The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
MLA Citation (style guide)Hillerman, Tony. The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West. New York, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t In the beginning... --|t Original westerners --|t Navajos --|t Hispanics --|t Frontier life --|t Cowboys --|t Tall tales and practical jokes --|t Characters --|t Mines --|t Women --|t Law and disorder --|t Travel --|t Military --|t Western way with words --|t Fiction. |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g In the beginning.|t New Mexico's mystery stone /|r Dixie L. Perkins --|t Message in the bottle /|r George Winship --|t Drake's brass plaque /|r James D. Hart --|t Real Manila galleon --|t Long way home /|r Meriwether Lewis --|t Stone Thoen found /|r Frank Thompson --|t Boulders taller than the Great Tower of Seville /|r Garcia Lopez de Cardenas --|t "The most sublime spectacle on earth" /|r John Wesley Powell --|t Fifty leagues of silver /|r Alonso de Benevides --|t Captain Još {250}̜Ziga's report --|t Are we prisoners of war? /|r Zebulon Montgomery Pike --|t Russians in California /|r William A. Slacum --|g The original westerners.|t Ishi, the last one left alive /|r Theodora Kroeber --|t Man who killed the deer /|r Frank Waters --|t Pacifist warrior /|r Jack Schaefer --|t Way to Rainy Mountain /|r N. Scott Momaday --|t Colter's Run /|r H.M. Chittenden --|t "Can you blot out those stars?" /|r Myron Angel --|t "I will fight no more forever" --|g The Navajos.|t Murder of Narbona /|r Franc Johnson Newcomb --|t Barboncito's plea --|t Hogan /|r Gladys Reichard --|t Laughing Boy /|r Oliver La Farge --|t Death of Old Man Hat /|r Walter Dyk --|g The Hispanos.|t Muleteers /|r Max Morehead --|t Brothers of the light /|r Marta Weigle --|t Blessing the animals /|r John A. Lomax --|t Ramona /|r Helen Hunt Jackson --|t A Santa Fe fandango /|r George Frederick Ruxton --|g Frontier life.|t Burning bush /|r A.W. Whipple --|t A twenty-dollar Christmas ball /|r Alexander Kelly McClure --|t Christmas in Round Valley /|r John Wesley Clampitt --|t "A rather pretentious sod house" /|r Everett Dick --|t "Quite discouraged and impatient for his death ..." /|r George Yount --|t Bashful trapper /|r Jacob Fowler --|t "And the skies are not cloudy all day" /|r Alan Bosworth --|t The $175,000 sack of flour --|t How Americans get ahead /|r William Shepherd --|t J.C. Penney's first day /|r Norman Beasley --|t Wolf Willow /|r Wallace Stegner --|t Melting pot /|r Robert Laxalt --|t Basques in Nevada /|r Robert Laxalt --|t Nails and whiskey /|r Alexander Toponce --|t Death Valley Scotty's story /|r Eleanor Jordan Houston --|t Burial customs at Fort Pierre /|r Thaddeus Culbertson --|g Cowboys.|t Harvard cowboy /|r Richard Trimble --|t Spree at the end of the trail --|t Charlie Siringo's flirtation /|r Charlie Siringo --|t "I threw my timid friend a bisquit" /|r Theodore Baughman --|t Cowboy strike /|r David Dary --|t First rodeos /|r Charles Nordhoff --|t Chuck wagon /|r Eugene Manlove Rhodes --|t When you call me that, smile! /|r Owen Wister --|t Tall tales and practical jokes.|t Travelling stones, and other such affairs /|r Duncan Emrich --|t First jumping frog --|t How trout survive mountain winters --|t "I am not aware that anyone has been born lately" /|r J. Ross Browne --|t I paint the truth just as it is /|r J. Ross Browne --|t Buffalo corral and milking pen /|r James Stevens --|t Greasewood Golf Course /|r Dick Wick Hall --|t Badger fight /|r Bill Oden --|t "Anything that will make money" --|g Characters.|t "Genial if rambunctious" /|r Marthy "Calamity" Janes Cannary --|t How the ski came to snow country /|r Robert Laxalt --|t Emperor of California /|r Joshua Norton --|t Schlatter the healer /|r Agnes Morley Cleaveland --|t Law west of the Pecos /|r C.L. Sonnichsen --|t How Phoenix got its name /|r Lawrence Clark Powell --|t Uncle Dick Wootton /|r Agnes Morley Cleaveland --|t Culture comes to Virginia City /|r R.D. Miller --|g The mines.|t Gold only waiting to be gathered up /|r Paul Horgan --|t "Something shining in the bottom of the ditch" /|r James W. Marshall --|t "Men living like coyotes" /|r J. Ross Browne --|t Sutro's tunnel --|t Growing up in Bonanza Town /|r John Taylor Walford --|t Boyhood at the Chloride Flat /|r James K. Hastings --|t Sun River stampede /|r Robert Vaughan --|t Post-hole banks /|r J. Frank Dobie --|t There's gems in them thar hills /|r Randall Henderson --|g Women.|t "A pretty hoorah place" /|r Nannie Alderson --|t Now the prairie life begins! /|r Susan Shelby Magoffin --|t Pregnant private /|r William Gilpin --|t Great Western, the Army's Amazon /|r Arthur Woodward --|t Doing the washing /|r Eleanor McGovern --|t "A ball put in your carcass" /|r Caroline Nichols Churchill --|t Rags to riches to rags /|r Robert Laxalt --|t And from rags to riches to starvation /|r Marshall Sprague --|t Biscuits, coffee and beans /|r Annie D. Tallent --|t Greasy meals, infested with lazy flies /|r Isabella Bird --|t Contempt of court /|r Ellen Jack --|t Goldfield booms /|r Anne Ellis --|g Law and disorder.|t Missed four thousand times /|r Elfego Baca --|t Marquis de Peralta --|t "It began with a wrong and outrage" /|r Eugene Manlove Rhodes --|t Real Billy the Kid /|r Howard Bryan --|t Billy's alive, and so is Jesse /|r C.L. Sonnichsen --|t That famous shootout at the O.K. Corral --|t Soldier of fortune /|r Thompson M. Turner --|t "No complaint was made against him" /|r Thompson M. Turner --|t Taking politics seriously /|r Ralph Emerson Twitchell --|t Hanging Windmill /|r Howard Bryan --|t More action at Hanging Windmill /|r Howard Bryan --|t Johnson County War /|r T.A. Larson --|g Travel.|t Over the Oregon Trail /|r Bernard DeVoto --|t Thus the first mail was brought on camels /|r Edward F. Beale --|t Aubry's great ride /|r J. Frank Dobie --|t "Without anything to eat but the dead" /|r Virginia Reed --|t "Goodbye, Death Valley" --|t Fifteen-hundred hats were lost yearly /|r Raphael Pumpelly --|t Great wagon-train swindle /|r William Miles --|t Horace Greeley's wild ride /|r Artemus Ward --|t What the travel agent doesn't tell you /|r H.M. Chittenden --|t Cold feet --|t A revolver is an admirable tool ... /|r Sir Richard Burton --|t Desert traveler's kit /|r Joseph P. Allyn --|t How exquisitely pleasant, how cosy and delightful! /|r James Rusling --|t Race for Raton Pass /|r James Marshall --|t Continent is joined /|r Theodore H. Hittell --|t They do not drink, fight, or strike /|r Charles Nordhoff --|t Rawhide Railroad /|r George Estes --|t 185 miles in fifteen hours and twenty minutes /|r Alexander Majors --|t Finally, behind the wheel! /|r Upton Sinclair --|t Steinbeck's Highway 66 /|r John Steinbeck --|g The military.|t Last word from the Alamo /|r William Travis --|t Mormon Battalion /|r James Ferguson --|t "We have come amongst you" /|r Stephen Watts Kearny --|t Paddy Graydon's Civil War --|t Custer's last letter home /|r George Armstrong Custer --|t Mrs. Custer hears the news /|r Elizabeth Custer --|g The Western way with words.|t "Još Maria Mar̕tn! Stand up! --|t "Stand up, ye son-of-a-bitch" /|r Walker Dixon Grisso --|t Why wilderness? /|r Ed Abbey --|t "The dirty nincompoop who edits that journal" --|t "To the world!!" /|r James W. Nesmith --|t "I ask: what is life?" /|r Herman W. Knickerbocker --|g Fiction.|t Rules of the game /|r Charles Lummis --|t Outcasts of Poker Flat /|r Bret Harte --|t Bride comes to Yellow Sky /|r Stephen Crane --|t Cabin fever /|r Dorothy Scarborough --|t "It must be something exciting" /|r Wallace Stegner --|t McTeague /|r Frank Norris. |
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