"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