Frontier Stories
presents 18 short-stories about the Old West. Almost all of them involve deadly encounters between cowboys, miners, cavalry, and settlers with outlaws and Indians—Utes, Paiutes, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Crow. The narrators of his stories are interested observers. Warman's West is almost bereft of females. But in one story, a white woman, who keeps a boarding house in Cripple Creek, Colorado, shoots a suspicious man who turns out to be a deputy on duty during a miner's strike. In another, a prostitute figures in the story only because she visits Bob Ford's dancehall collecting for the burial of another woman just before he is shot.