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The Big Book of Western Action Stories ed. Jon Tuska (Barricade Books, 1995, 1-56980-048-0, $24.00, 559pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 20 western stories, one original.

11 · Introduction · Jon Tuska · in (r)

29 · The Code · Ernest Haycox · ss The Frontier June 1926

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 · Alan LeMay · ss Collier’s September 27 1930, as “To Save a Girl”

125 · Land Without Mercy · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Big-Book Western Magazine August 1942

133 · Gun Fog · William Colt MacDonald · na Big-Book Western Magazine November 1935

201 · Back Trail · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Western Magazine September 1949, as “Hunted Wolf!”

221 · Bandit Lawman · Luke Short · nv Big-Book Western Magazine March/April 1937

247 · There’s Hell on the Dodge Trail · Bill Gulick · ss Big-Book Western Magazine February 1942

261 · Showdown at Anchor · Peter Dawson · na Fifteen Western Tales November 1947, as “A Man for Hell’s Canyon”

295 · Powder Smoke—Guest of Faro Flats · W. Ryerson Johnson · ss Ace-High Magazine July 1939

311 · Trail of the Lonely Gun · Les Savage, Jr. · na Action Stories Spring 1946

357 · Wild Was the River · Giff Cheshire · nv New Western Magazine May 1946

379 · Saddlebum’s Bondage · Dwight Bennett Newton · ss New Western Magazine September 1945, as “Owlhoot Brotherhood”

389 · Border Man · Frank Bonham · na Dime Western Magazine January 1950

421 · The Feminine Touch · Dan Cushman · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine October 1952

433 · Banker Clayton’s Interest · Robert Easton · ss Collier’s December 9 1950

441 · Lawmen Die Sudden · Will Cook · nv Big-Book Western Magazine November 1953

475 · Mama Rides the Norther · Lewis B. Patten · ss Thrilling Western March 1953

489 · The Victim · Ed Gorman · ss

503 · Death Rides This Trail · Steve Frazee · na Western Story Magazine October 1953

553 · Suggested Further Reading · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The Golden West ed. Jon Tuska (Leisure Books, 2003, pb, an)

· Jargan · Max Brand · nv Short Stories November 25 1922

· Tappan’s Burro · Zane Grey · nv The Ladies’ Home Journal June 1923

· The Trail to Crazy Man · Louis L’Amour · na West July 1948, as by Jim Mayo

The Lawless West ed. Jon Tuska (Leisure Books, 2007, pb, an)

· Over the Northern Border · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine September 16 1922, as by George Owen Baxter

· From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s August 1926

· Riders of the Dawn [Matt Sabre] · Louis L’Amour · na Giant Western June 1951

The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories ed. Jon Tuska & Vicki Piekarski (Morrow, March 1997, 0-688-14783-6, $32.00, 672pp, hc, an)

· Introduction · Jon Tuska & Vicki Piekarski · in (r)

1 · Monty Price’s Nightingale · Zane Grey · ss The Popular Magazine May 7 1915

11 · On with the Dance · B. M. Bower · nv Short Stories January 10 1934

35 · The One-Way Trail · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine February 4 1922, as by George Owen Baxter

95 · Breaking the Blue Roan · Honoré Willsie Morrow · nv Everybody’s December 1921, as by Honoré Willsie

116 · Shadows of Granite Ridge: At Kunman’s Bend [White Ears] · Vingie E. Roe · ss The Popular Magazine June 7 1915

128 · The Bells of San Juan · Alan LeMay · ss Adventure November 15 1927

143 · Ghost Town Trail · Cherry Wilson · na Western Story Magazine October 25 1930

229 · Wagon Wheel Exile · Cliff Farrell · nv Ace-High Magazine June 1937

256 · The Quickest Draw · T. T. Flynn · na Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine December 10 1938

298 · Valhalla · Conrad Richter · ss The Blue Book Magazine December 1934

315 · A Storm Comes to Crazy Horse · Tom W. Blackburn · ss 10 Story Western Magazine November 1940

323 · Three-Way Double Cross · C. K. Shaw · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story June 13 1942

338 · Spawn of Yuma · Peter Dawson · nv Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine May 11 1940

373 · Marked Man · Eli Colter · nv Street & Smith’s Western Story August 1948

398 · Night Guns Calling · Steve Frazee · na Fifteen Western Tales September 1948

420 · Brother Shotgun · Jeanne Williams · ss Ranch Romances 2nd June 1957

435 · Bonaparte McPhail · Robert Easton · ss Collier’s August 26 1944

448 · The Girl Who Busted Broncos · S. Omar Barker · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 16 1950

461 · Mule Tracks · Dwight Bennett Newton · ss .44 Western Magazine November 1953, as “Peaker Kid”

480 · Ride the Red Trail · Wayne D. Overholser · nv Fifteen Western Tales May 1954

491 · The Ghost of Jean Lafitte · Les Savage, Jr. · na Action Stories Fall 1945, as “Tonight the Phantoms Ride”

551 · Night Marshall · Verne Athanas · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 2 1960

565 · Journey of No Return · T. V. Olsen · ss Ranch Romances 3rd April 1956

578 · Virginia City Winter · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Flame on the Frontier: Short Stories of Pioneer Women by Dorothy M. Johnson, 1948

591 · Deep in This Land · Ernest Haycox · ss Playboy January 1990

609 · The Business of Dying · Richard S. Wheeler · ss

618 · Moving On · Jane Candia Coleman · ss

634 · Guipago’s Vow · Cynthia Haseloff · ss

Odyssey to the North ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2003, hc, an)

· North of “Fifty-Three” · Rex Beach · ss McClure’s Magazine May 1904

· Carcajou’s Trail · Max Brand · na Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine March 26 1932

· Maintien le Droit · Tim Champlin · ss Tin Star ed. Robert J. Randisi, Berkley, 2000

· The Match · James Oliver Curwood · ss Collier’s January 18 1913

· The Craft of Ka-Yip · Dan Cushman · ss North•West Romances Fall 1945

· An Odyssey of the North [The Malemute Kid] · Jack London · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1900

· Voyageur of the Wasteland · Frederick L. Nebel · nv North•West Stories 1st January 1926, as “The White Peril”

· The Call of the Wild · Robert Service · pm (r)
from The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses, 1907.

Shadow of the Lariat: A Treasury of the Frontier ed. Jon Tuska (Carroll & Graf, November 1995, 0786702567, $25.00, 564pp, hc, an)

xi · Introduction · Jon Tuska · in (r)

1 · The Great Slave · Zane Grey · nv The Ladies’ Home Journal December 1920

16 · Riders of the Purple · Walt Coburn · nv The Lariat Story Magazine August 1925

46 · The House of Whispering Shadows · Eugene Cunningham · nv Frontier Stories February 1928

70 · Lawman’s Heart · Max Brand · nv Star Western May 1934

112 · The Pie River · T. T. Flynn · na Western Trails December 1937, as “The Pistol Prodigal”

146 · Lawman’s Debt · Alan LeMay · ss Dime Western Magazine May 1934, as by Alan M. Emley

157 · Stage Station · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s April 22 1939

170 · Brand of Justice · Luke Short · ss Country Home Magazine February 1939

181 · Where Trails Divide · Tom W. Blackburn · ss Star Western January 1939, as “Epitaph for an Unmarked Grave”

191 · The Ghost of Miguel · Barry Cord · ss Lariat Story Magazine January 1945

207 · The Beast of Cañada Diablo · Les Savage, Jr. · na Lariat Story Magazine May 1946, as “The Ghost of Gun-Runners’ Rancho”; in slightly different form.

271 · The Conestoga Pirate [Comanche John] · Dan Cushman · na Frontier Stories Winter 1944

316 · Reach High, Tophand! · Dwight Bennett Newton · nv Lariat Story Magazine July 1947

347 · Furnace Flat · Frank Bonham · nv New Western Magazine December 1948, as “Gun-Dog of Furnace Flat”

380 · Colt-Cure for Woolly Fever · Peter Dawson · na Big-Book Western Magazine February 1949

407 · Stage to Death · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Lariat Story Magazine November 1944

427 · Stagecoach Pass · Giff Cheshire · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1950

439 · Payroll of the Dead · Steve Frazee · na Complete Western Book Magazine March 1957, as “Knife in the Back”

474 · The Clown · Verne Athanas · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 24 1961, as “Boy with a Gun”

486 · The Silent Outcast [Caleb Doorn] · Lauran Paine · nv Double Action Western January 1954

507 · Gun This Man Down · Lewis B. Patten · na Dime Western Magazine March 1954

544 · The Streets of Laredo · Will Henry · ss Western Roundup ed. Nelson Nye, Macmillan, 1961

557 · Selected Further Reading · [uncredited] · bi (r)

Star Western ed. Jon Tuska (Gramercy, 1965, 0-517-14688-6, 435pp, hc, an)

vii · Introduction · Jon Tuska · in (r)

1 · Satan’s Deputy · T. T. Flynn · na Star Western December 1933

41 · Yellow Dog · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine May 31 1930, as by David Manning

75 · Beyond the Law Frontier · Ray Nafziger · nv Star Western April 1935

95 · Guns for a Peacemaker · Luke Short · nv Star Western February 1936

114 · Boomerang Bounty · Peter Dawson · ss (r)

132 · The Block K Rides Tonight! · Walt Coburn · na Star Western July 1939

162 · Bullet Requiem for Len Siringo [Len Siringo] · W. Ryerson Johnson · nv Star Western February 1940

181 · The Wages of Sin · Day Keene · na Star Western January 1941

197 · Faithfully, Judith [Land Rush] · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s April 11 1942

208 · John Irons’s Ticket to Hell [Sudden John Irons] · Dee Linford · nv Star Western April 1943

231 · Six-Gun Snare · Les Savage, Jr. · nv (r)

256 · Hell’s High-Graders · Cliff Farrell · na Star Western June 1945

272 · Grangers, Get Your Guns! · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Star Western August 1946

289 · Death-Song on the Singing Wires · Frank Bonham · nv Star Western March 1947

307 · Who Rules Dead Man’s Range? · Thomas Thompson · nv Star Western January 1948

332 · Fair Exchange · Tom W. Blackburn · ss Star Western May 1949

341 · Two Queens for Skidway Empire · Dan Cushman · nv Star Western July 1950

370 · No Man’s Range · Giff Cheshire · ss (r)

389 · The Woman on the Stage · Steve Frazee · nv (r)

417 · Decision in Sundown · Barry Cord · ss (r)

429 · Too Tough for Texans! · Will C. Brown · ss Star Western September 1954

Stories of the Far North ed. Jon Tuska (University of Nebraska Press, 1998, hc, an)
All stories restored to authors’ original texts.

· The Test · Rex Beach · ss McClure’s Magazine December 1904

· The Man Who Goes Alone · Max Brand · ss Maclean’s June 15 1938, as “Devil Dog”

· Color at Forty-Mile · Tim Champlin · ss 1998

· The Strength of Men · James Oliver Curwood · ss Collier’s February 17 1912

· The Great Hunger · Dan Cushman · ss North•West Romances Fall 1946, as by John Starr

· Cheechako Trouble [Black John Smith] · James B. Hendryx · nv New Western Magazine September 1952

· The League of Old Men · Jack London · ss Brandur Magazine October 4 1902

· “Mush Fast or Die!” · Les Savage, Jr. · na North•West Romances Fall 1945

· The Trail of “Ninety-Eight” · Robert Service · pm Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. Service, Briggs, 1909

Stories of the Golden West, Book Five: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2004, hc, an)

· Foreword · Jon Tuska · fw (r)

· Black Sheep · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine July 28 1923, as by George Owen Baxter

· Cañon Walls · Zane Grey · na Ladies’ Home Journal October 1930 (+2)

· Showdown on the Hogback · Louis L’Amour · na Giant Western August 1950, as by Jim Mayo

Stories of the Golden West, Book Four: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2003, hc, an)

· Foreword · Jon Tuska · fw (r)

· Outlawed Guns · Cliff Farrell · nv Thrilling Ranch Stories December 1934

· Rocky Rhodes of Roaring Gap · W. C. Tuttle · na Big-Book Western Magazine Autumn 1933

· Riders of the Crimson Trail · Wilton West · nv Thrilling Ranch Stories December 1934

Stories of the Golden West, Book One: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2000, hc, an)

· Foreword · Jon Tuska · fw (r)

· The Texas Hellion · Walt Coburn · na Action Stories July 1931

· Riders of the Storm · Robert J. Horton · na Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine December 17 1932

· The Cayuse · Cherry Wilson · na Western Story Magazine July 12 1930

Stories of the Golden West, Book Seven: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2006, hc, an)

· Foreword · Jon Tuska · fw (r)

· Over the Northern Border · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine September 16 1922, as by George Owen Baxter

· From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s August 1926

· Riders of the Dawn [Matt Sabre] · Louis L’Amour · na Giant Western June 1951

Stories of the Golden West, Book Six: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2005, hc, an)

· Foreword · Jon Tuska · fw (r)

· Hell for Sale · Tom W. Blackburn · na Lariat Story Magazine January 1944, as “Renegade Lady of the Blazing Buckhorn”

· Proud Rider · Harvey Fergusson · na The Blue Book Magazine December 1935 (+1)

· Thirsty Acres · L. P. Holmes · na Ranch Romances 1st September 1938

Stories of the Golden West: Book Three ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, May 2002, hc, an)

· Tappan’s Burro · Zane Grey · nv The Ladies’ Home Journal June 1923

· Jargan · Max Brand · nv Short Stories November 25 1922

· The Trail to Crazy Man · Louis L’Amour · na West July 1948, as by Jim Mayo

Stories of the Golden West, Book Two: A Western Trio ed. Jon Tuska (Five Star, 2001, hc, an)

· Introduction · Jon Tuska · in (r)

· Red Range · H. A. DeRosso · na Western Novels and Short Stories September 1953

· Long Ride, Hard Ride · Elmer Kelton · na Western Novels and Short Stories April 1953

· The Six-Gun Sinner · Les Savage, Jr. · na Western Novels and Short Stories May 1950

The Untamed West ed. Jon Tuska (Leisure, 2004, pb, an)

· Black Sheep · Max Brand · nv Western Story Magazine July 28 1923, as by George Owen Baxter

· Cañon Walls · Zane Grey · na Ladies’ Home Journal October 1930 (+2)

· Showdown on the Hogback · Louis L’Amour · na Giant Western August 1950, as by Jim Mayo

Western Stories: A Chronological Anthology ed. Jon Tuska (Gramercy, 1999, 0-517-18659-4, $5.95, 305pp, hc, an)
Abridged from The Western Story: A Chronological Anthology (University of Nebraska Press 1995).

vii · Introduction · Jon Tuska · in (r)

· Part One: The East Goes West

6 · Hank’s Woman · Owen Wister · ss Harper’s Weekly August 27 1892

19 · The Californian’s Tale · Mark Twain · ss Liber Scriptorum ed. Arthur Stedman, The Authors Club of New York, 1893

29 · A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop · Frederic Remington · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1897

42 · Three Vagabonds of Trinidad · Bret Harte · ss Collier’s Weekly October 6 1900

55 · The Last Thunder Song · John G. Neihardt · ss Overland Monthly October 1904

· Part Two: Founders of the Golden Age

65 · The Wild Land · Willa Cather · ex from O Pioneers!, Houghton Mifflin, June 1913

78 · The Desert Crucible · Zane Grey · n. The Argosy May 1915 (+4); abridged.

92 · Werewolf · Max Brand™ · na Western Story Magazine December 18 1926

153 · Bad Penny [Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss Argosy December 2 1933

170 · Blizzard · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s February 25 1939

· Part Three: Storytellers of the Golden Age

189 · Retirement Day · Peter Dawson · ss Western Tales February 1942

205 · What Color Is Heaven? · T. T. Flynn · nv Dime Western Magazine May 1942, as “Those Fighting Gringo Devils!”; original ending.

232 · The Wind and the Snow of Winter · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Winter 1945

245 · A Man Called Horse · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s January 7 1950

260 · The Shadow in Renegade Basin · Les Savage, Jr. · nv Frontier Stories Summer 1950, as “Tombstones for Gringos”

297 · War Party · Louis L’Amour · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 13 1959

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