This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Western.For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections.This book contains:- Bret Harte:- The Luck of Roaring Camp- The Outcasts of Poker Flat- Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff- A Convert of the Mission- A Widow of the Santa Ana Valley- A Yellow Dog- Melons- Andy Adams:- Drifting North.- Siegerman's Per Cent.- "Bad Medicine".- A Winter Round-Up.- A College Vagabond.- The Double Trail.- Rangering.- B. M. Bower:- The Lonesome Trail.- First Aid To Cupid.- When The Cook Fell Ill.- The Lamb.- The Spirit of the Range.- The Reveler.- The Unheavenly Twins- Zane Grey:- Amber's Mirage- The Ranger- Don: The Story Of A Lion Dog- The Wolf Tracker- Lure of the River- A Missouri Schoolmarm- Monty Price's Nightingale- Hamlin Garland:- Under the Lion's Paw- A Branch Road- A "Good Fellow's Wife"- A Night Raid at Eagle River- Uncle Ethan Ripley- Mrs. Ripley's Trip- A Day's Pleasure

Francis Brett Hart, known as Bret Harte, was an American short-story writer and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four decades, he wrote poetry, plays, lectures, book reviews, editorials, and magazine sketches in addition to fiction. As he moved from California to the eastern U.S. to Europe, he incorporated new subjects and characters into his stories, but his Gold Rush tales have been the works most often reprinted, adapted, and admired.Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, best known by her pseudonym B. M. Bower, was an American author who wrote novels, fictional short stories, and screenplays about the American Old West. Her works, featuring cowboys and cows of the Flying U Ranch in Montana, reflected "an interest in ranch life, the use of working cowboys as main characters (even in romantic plots), the occasional appearance of eastern types for the sake of contrast, a sense of western geography as simultaneously harsh and grand, and a good deal of factual attention to such matters as cattle branding and bronc busting".Andy Adams was an American writer of western fiction. He began writing at the age of 43, publishing his most successful book, The Log of a Cowboy, in 1903. His other works include A Texas Matchmaker (1904), The Outlet (1905), Cattle Brands (1906), Reed Anthony, Cowman: An Autobiography (1907), Wells Brothers (1911), and The Ranch on the Beaver (1927).Pearl Zane Grey was an American author and dentist best known for his popular adventure novels and stories associated with the Western genre in literature and the arts; he idealized the American frontier. Riders of the Purple Sage (1912) was his best-selling book.Hannibal Hamlin Garland was an American novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer, Georgist, and psychical researcher. He is best known for his fiction involving hard-working Midwestern farmers.