"Anyone who enjoys a slumgullion stew can find something tasty in this campfire collection." -- Entertainment Weekly

A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introduced by Tony Hillerman, one of this country's premier chroniclers of the Western landscape.

The collection includes writing by:

• Edward Abbey
• Sir Richard Francis Burton
• Martha "Calamity" Jane Canary
• Stephen Crane
• General George Armstrong Custer
• Bret Harte
• Robert Laxalt
• Meriwether Lewis
• N. Scott Momaday
• Frank Norris
• Zebulon Pike
• Jack Schaefer
• Upton Sinclair
• Wallace Stegner
• John Steinbeck
• Artemus Ward

And many more