Tony Hillerman: The Best of the West (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
Selected and introduced by Tony Hillerman, one of today's premier chroniclers of the Western landscape, here are more than 140 pieces of writing -- classic and contemporary, fiction and nonfiction - that compellingly evoke the unique spirit of the West and its people.

The Best of the West includes writing by:
Edward Abbey, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Marthy "Calamity" Jane Cannary, 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

This anthology spans five centuries and every conceivable facet of the Western experience -- Indians, cowboys, Latinos, frontier justice, homesteaders, the Pony Express, the mines, the railroads, the military, to name but a few. Anyone who has ever felt the West's powerful allure will find this volume endlessly captivating reading.

Best known for his acclaimed suspense novels set on the Navajo Reservation, most recently Coyote Waits and Talking God, Tony Hillerman has also written much nonfiction about the Southwest, including Hillerman Country and The Great Taos Bank Robbery. Among other honors, he has received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar and Grandmaster Awards and a Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tony Hillerman: The Best of the West. An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West. Harper Perennial, ISBN: 0060923520 (September, 1992), 528 p., $15.00.

Tony Hillerman: The Best of the West (USA 1991)

From the Publisher:
In this extraordinary treasury, Tony Hillerman, himself a beloved chronicler of the American West, has gathered over 140 remarkable texts from and about the West. Though these selec tions 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. 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 rail-roads, the military, and far, far more. Included are such well-known docu ments 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 Epiraphs report of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and a thoroughly bone chilling account of a midwinter stagecoach ride.

Anyone who has ever felt the powerful allure of the American West will find Best of the West endlessly captivating reading.

Best known for his acclaimed suspense novels set on the Navajo Reservation, most recently Coyote Waits and Talking God, TONY HILLERMAN has also written much nonfiction about the Southwest, including Hillerman Country, The Great Taos Bank Robbery, and New Mexico. Among other honors, he has received the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar and Grandmaster awards, the Silver Spur Award for the best novel set in the West, the Navajo Tribe's Special Friend Award, and a Public Service Award from the U.S. Department of the Interior. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Tony Hillerman: The Best of the West. An Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West. HarperCollins, ISBN: 006016649 (September, 1991), 528 p., $25.00.