The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories

by Vicki Piekarski, Jon Tuska

A collection of twenty-eight tales of the Old West includes previously unpublished stories by such classic Western writers as Zane Grey, Max Brand, and Alan LeMay, along with up-and-coming writers like Richard Wheeler and Cynthia Haselhoff.

Genres: Short Stories, Anthologies

653 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 1997

Reviews

[Rena Sherwood · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was a great surprise. I found this in the library and decided to give it a try. Some of the stories helped calm me down when I started panic attacks. I just got lost in the reading. I tend to read speculative fiction or historical fiction, and found many themes similar to western short stories and novellas. There's a lot about revenge and justice -- but some really bad horse training and handling advice, too. And yes, there are some cliches in here, but they're not overpowering.

[Greynomad · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just got too repetitive after a while

[David Welch · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a solid collection of entertaining western tales. The bad stuff- three or four stories seem to have literary pretensions and don't quite pull it off. Not bad tales, by any means, but they lack the vibrancy you usually find in this genre. And the introduction for this work was very strange. One minute it crows about women in westerns, then a few paragraphs later talks about how westerns are an antidote to Political Correctness? A bit schizophrenic, but thankfully the stories they chose didn't seem to have any axe to grind. The good stuff- most of the stories here. A lot of good, old-fashioned pulp stories, with plenty of adventure and action. The book offers a good sampling of stories, ranging from mountain man era to early twentieth century stuff. A good intro to the genre if you've never partaken, a solid collection if you have. And you'll find some of the legendary writers of the genre here too. Max Brand, Les Savage Jr., and Wayne Overholser all make an appearance.

[Judith Teggelaar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed every story in this collection. Some, of course, were better than others but I'm glad that I read this book again.