Language
English
Date Published
Publication Details
New York: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN Number
0-06-016664-9
Edition Notes
This is the Advance Reading Copy of The Best of The West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West, edited by Tony Hillerman and published by HarperCollins Publishers in New York City, NY. The cover contains the text "Reviewers are reminded that changes may be made in this proof copy before books are printed. If any material form the book is to be quoted in a review, the quotation should be checked against the final bound book."
In this uncorrected proof the table of contents lists all page numbers as 000 and does not include the author names for the various submissions.
- Title Page Transcription:
[double rule] The | BEST | of the | WEST | [rule] | An Anthology of | Classic Writing from | the American West | [rule] | Edited by | TONY HILLERMAN | [double rule] - Contents:
[a] book summary, [b] blank, [i] half title The Best of the West, [ii] blank, [iii] title page, [iv] copyright, [v]-xi Contents, [xii] blank, [xiii]-xvi Introduction, [1]-532 text, [533-534] blank - Table of Contents:
Introduction xiii
Part 1: In the Beginning . . .
1. New Mexico's Myster Stone
2. The Message in the Bottle
3. Drake's Brass Plaque
4. The Real Manila Galleon
5. The Long Way Home
6. The Stone Thoen Found
7. Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville
8. "The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth"
9. Fifty Leagues of Silver
10. Captain José Zúñiga's Report
11. Are We Prisoners of War?
12. The Russians in California
Part 2: The Original Westerners
13. Ishi, The Last One Left Alive
14. The Man Who Killed the Deer
15. The Pacifist Warrior
16. The Way to Rainy Mountain
17. Colter's Run
18. "Can You Blot Out Those Stars?"
19. "I will Fight No More Forever"
Part 3: The Navajos
20. The Murder of Narbona
21. Barboncito's Plea
22. The Hogan
23. Laughing Boy
24. The Death of Old Man Hat
Part 4: The Hispanos
25. The Muleteers
26. Brother's of the Light
27. Blessing the Animals
28. Ramona
29. A Santa Fe Fandango
Part 5: Frontier Life
30. The Burning Bush
31. A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball
32. Christmas in Round Valley
33. "A Rather Pretentious Sod House"
34. "Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death . . ."
35. The Bashful Trapper
36. "And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day"
37. The $175,000 Sack of Flour
38. How Americans Get Ahead
39. J.C. Penney's First Day
40. Wolf Willow
41. The Melting Pot
42. Basques in Nevada
43. Nails and Whiskey
44. Death Valley Scotty's Story
45. Burial Customs at Fort Pierre
Part 6: Cowboys
46. The Harvard Cowboy
47. The Spree at the End of the Trail
48. Charlie Siringo's Flirtation
49. "I Threw My Timid Friend a Bisquit"
50. The Cowboy Strike
51. The First Rodeos
52. The Chuck Wagon
53. When You Call Me That, Smile!
Part 7: Tall Tales and Practical Jokes
54. The Traveling Stones, and Other Such Affairs
55. The First Jumping Frog
56. How Trout Survive Mountain Winters
57. "I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately"
58. I Paint the Truth Just as It Is
59. The Buffalo Corral and Milking Pen
60. The Greasewood Golf Course
61. The Badger Fight
62. "Anything That Will Make Money"
Part 8: Characters
63. "Genial if Rambunctious"
64. How the Ski Came to Snow Country
65. The Emperor of California
66. Schlatter the Healer
67. Law West of the Pecos
68. How Phoenix Got Its Name
69. Uncle Dick Wootton
70. Culture Comes to Virginia City
Part 9: The Mines
71. Gold Only Waiting to Be Gathered Up
72. "Something Shining int h Bottom of the Ditch"
73. "Men Living Like Coyotes"
74. Sutro's Tunnel
75. Growing Up in Bonanza Town
76. Boyhood at the Chloride Flat
77. The Sun River Stampede
78. The Post-Hole Banks
79. There's Gems in Them Thar Hills
Part 10: Women
80. "A Pretty Hoorah Place"
81. Now the Prairie Life Begins!
82. The Pregnant Private
83. Great Western, the Army's Amazon
84. Doing the Washing
85. "A Ball Put in Your Carcass"
86. Rags to Riches to Rags
87. And from Rags to Riches to Starvation
88. Biscuits, Coffee and Beans
89. Greasy Meals, Infested with Lazy Flies
90. Contempt of Court
91. Goldfield Booms
Part 11: Law and Disorder
92. Missed Four Thousand Times
93. The Marquis de Peralta
94. "It Began with Wrong and Outrage"
95. The Real Billy the Kid
96. Billy's Alive, and So Is Jesse
97. That Famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral
98. The Soldier of Fortune
99. "No Complaint Was Made Against Him"
100. Taking Politics Seriously
101. The Hanging Windmill
102. More Action at the Hanging Windmill
103. The Johnson County War
Part 12: Travel
104. Over the Oregon Trail
105. Thus the First Mail Was Brought on Camels
106. Aubry's Great Ride
107. "Without Any Thing to Eat but the Dead"
108. "Goodbye, Death Valley"
109. "Fifteen-Hundred Hats Were Lost Yearly"
110. The Great Wagon-Train Swindle
111. Horace Greeley's Wild Ride
112. What the Travel Agent Doesn't Tell You
113. Cold Feet
114. A Revolver Is an Admirable Tool . . .
115. The Desert Traveler's Kit
116. How Exquisitely Pleasant, How Cosy and Delightful!
117. The Race for Raton Pass
118. The Continent is Joined by
119. They Do Not Drink, Fight, or Strike
120. The Rawhide Railroad
121. 185 Miles in Fifteen Hours and Twenty Minutes
122. Finally, Behind the Wheel!
123. Steinbeck's Highway 66
Part 13: The Military
124. The Last Word from the Alamo
125. The Mormon Battalion
126. "We Have Come Amongst You"
127. Paddy Graydon's Civil War
128. Custers Last Letter Home
129. Mrs. Custer Hears the News
Part 14: The Western Way With Words
130. "José Maria Martín! Stand Up!"
131. "Stand Up, Ye Son-of-a-Bitch"
132. Why Wilderness?
133. "The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal"
134. "To The World!!"
135. "I Ask: What Is Life?"
Part 15: Fiction
136. The Rules of the Game
137. The Outcasts of Poker Flats
138. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
139. Cabin Fever
140. Honey in the Horn
141. "It Must Be Something Exciting"
142. McTeague - Physical Attributes:
- Format: Paperback, 21 x 13.6 cm.
- Binding: Red paper covers with editor, title and publisher printed in black on the spine.
- Collation: [a-b] [i]-xvi [1]-532 [533-534]
- Price: Not applicable
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