The American West in Fiction

By: Dorothy M. Johnson, James Warner Bellah, John Neihardt, Max Brand, Owen Wister, Ernest Haycox, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Willa Cather, Bret Harte

Narrated by: K. T. Oslin, Hal Ketchum, Lynn Anderson, Ray Stevens, Gary Morris, Emmylou Harris, Orson Welles

The lure of the American West is in the spirit of adventure, in the majestic expanse of unconquered wilderness, and in rugged individuals on a quest for identity and, sometimes, for survival. Owen Wister's unsmiling Virginian... Dorothy M. Johnson's, "A Man Called Horse": These are a few of the colorful, even legendary characters who populate The American West in Fiction, a collection of stories edited by Jon Tuska.

From Mark Twain's time to our own, Western fiction has demonstrated a depth and texture that keeps us coming back for more; these stories create the compelling atmosphere of life at the boundaries of civilization and beyond.

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