The Best of the West
, by Hillerman, Tony
- ISBN: 9780060923525 | 0060923520
- Cover: Paperback
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A sterling collection of classic and contemporary fiction and nonfiction evoking the unique spirit of the West and its people, selected and introduced by one of today's premier chroniclers of the Western landscape and a New York Times bestselling author.
| Introduction | |
| In the Beginning . . . | p. 1 |
| New Mexico's Mystery Stone | p. 3 |
| The Message in the Bottle | p. 6 |
| Drake's Brass Plaque | p. 8 |
| The Real Manila Galleon | p. 11 |
| The Long Way Home | p. 14 |
| The Stone Thoen Found | p. 16 |
| Boulders Taller than the Great Tower of Seville | p. 19 |
| "The Most Sublime Spectacle on Earth" | p. 21 |
| Fifty Leagues of Silver | p. 25 |
| Captain Jose Zuniga's Report | p. 27 |
| Are We Prisoners of War? | p. 29 |
| The Russians in California | p. 31 |
| The Original Westerners | p. 35 |
| Ishi, The Last One Left Alive | p. 37 |
| The Man Who Killed the Deer | p. 43 |
| The Pacifist Warrior | p. 47 |
| The Way to Rainy Mountain | p. 51 |
| Colter's Run | p. 57 |
| "Can You Blot Out Those Stars?" | p. 61 |
| "I Will Fight No More Forever" | p. 63 |
| The Navajos | p. 65 |
| The Murder of Narbona | p. 67 |
| Barboncito's Plea | p. 73 |
| The Hogan | p. 82 |
| Laughing Boy | p. 84 |
| The Death of Old Man Hat | p. 89 |
| The Hispanos | p. 93 |
| The Muleteers | p. 95 |
| Brothers of the Light | p. 97 |
| Blessing the Animals | p. 103 |
| Ramona | p. 106 |
| A Santa Fe Fandango | p. 112 |
| Frontier Life | p. 117 |
| The Burning Bush | p. 119 |
| A Twenty-Dollar Christmas Ball | p. 121 |
| Christmas in Round Valley | p. 123 |
| "A Rather Pretentious Sod House" | p. 125 |
| "Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death . . ." | p. 128 |
| The Bashful Trapper | p. 132 |
| "And the Skies Are Not Cloudy All Day" | p. 134 |
| The $175,000 Sack of Flour | p. 138 |
| How Americans Get Ahead | p. 140 |
| J. C. Penney's First Day | p. 142 |
| Wolf Willow | p. 144 |
| The Melting Pot | p. 147 |
| Basques in Nevada | p. 149 |
| Nails and Whiskey | p. 153 |
| Death Valley Scotty's Story | p. 155 |
| Burial Customs at Fort Pierre | p. 159 |
| Cowboys | p. 163 |
| The Harvard Cowboy | p. 165 |
| The Spree at the End of the Trail | p. 169 |
| Charlie Siringo's Flirtation | p. 171 |
| "I Threw My Timid Friend a Bisquit" | p. 176 |
| The Cowboy Strike | p. 178 |
| The First Rodeos | p. 180 |
| The Chuck Wagon | p. 183 |
| When You Call Me That, Smile! | p. 185 |
| Tall Tales and Practical Jokes | p. 189 |
| The Travelling Stones, and Other Such Affairs | p. 191 |
| The First Jumping Frog | p. 195 |
| How Trout Survive Mountain Winters | p. 197 |
| "I Am Not Aware That Anyone Has Been Born Lately" | p. 200 |
| I Paint the Truth Just as It Is | p. 202 |
| The Buffalo Corral and Milking Pen | p. 204 |
| The Greasewood Golf Course | p. 207 |
| The Badger Fight | p. 210 |
| "Anything That Will Make Money" | p. 213 |
| Characters | p. 217 |
| "Genial If Rambunctious" | p. 219 |
| How the Ski Came to Snow Country | p. 224 |
| The Emperor of California | p. 226 |
| Schlatter the Healer | p. 228 |
| Law West of the Pecos | p. 231 |
| How Phoenix Got Its Name | p. 236 |
| Uncle Dick Wootton | p. 241 |
| Culture Comes to Virginia City | p. 245 |
| The Mines | p. 251 |
| Gold Only Waiting to Be Gathered Up | p. 253 |
| "Something Shining in the Bottom of the Ditch" | p. 261 |
| "Men Living Like Coyotes" | p. 265 |
| Sutro's Tunnel | p. 267 |
| Growing Up in Bonanza Town | p. 271 |
| Boyhood at the Chloride Flat | p. 279 |
| The Sun River Stampede | p. 283 |
| The Post-Hole Banks | p. 286 |
| There's Gems in Them Thar Hills | p. 289 |
| Women | p. 293 |
| "A Pretty Hoorah Place" | p. 295 |
| Now the Prairie Life Begins! | p. 302 |
| The Pregnant Private | p. 304 |
| Great Western, the Army's Amazon | p. 306 |
| Doing the Washing | p. 310 |
| "A Ball Put in Your Carcass" | p. 312 |
| Rags to Riches to Rags | p. 314 |
| And from Rags to Riches to Starvation | p. 316 |
| Biscuits, Coffee and Beans | p. 320 |
| Greasy Meals, Infested with Lazy Flies | p. 323 |
| Contempt of Court | p. 325 |
| Goldfield Booms | p. 328 |
| Law and Disorder | p. 333 |
| Missed Four Thousand Times | p. 335 |
| The Marquis de Peralta | p. 339 |
| "It Began with Wrong and Outrage" | p. 343 |
| The Real Billy the Kid | p. 346 |
| Billy's Alive, and So Is Jesse | p. 349 |
| That Famous Shootout at the O.K. Corral | p. 351 |
| The Soldier of Fortune | p. 354 |
| "No Complaint Was Made Against Him" | p. 356 |
| Taking Politics Seriously | p. 358 |
| The Hanging Windmill | p. 360 |
| More Action at Hanging Windmill | p. 363 |
| The Johnson County War | p. 365 |
| Travel | p. 367 |
| Over the Oregon Trail | p. 369 |
| Thus the First Mail Was Brought on Camels | p. 373 |
| Aubry's Great Ride | p. 375 |
| "Without Any Thing to Eat but the Dead" | p. 379 |
| "Goodbye, Death Valley" | p. 385 |
| "Fifteen-Hundred Hats Were Lost Yearly" | p. 391 |
| The Great Wagon-Train Swindle | p. 394 |
| Horace Greeley's Wild Ride | p. 398 |
| What the Travel Agent Doesn't Tell You | p. 401 |
| Cold Feet | p. 407 |
| A Revolver Is an Admirable Tool . . . | p. 409 |
| The Desert Traveler's Kit | p. 414 |
| How Exquisitely Pleasant, How Cosy and Delightful! | p. 416 |
| The Race for Raton Pass | p. 420 |
| The Continent Is Joined | p. 423 |
| They Do Not Drink, Fight, or Strike | p. 425 |
| The Rawhide Railroad | p. 427 |
| 185 Miles in Fifteen Hours and Twenty Minutes | p. 432 |
| Finally, Behind the Wheel! | p. 436 |
| Steinbeck's Highway 66 | p. 439 |
| The Military | p. 443 |
| The Last Word from the Alamo | p. 445 |
| The Mormon Battalion | p. 447 |
| "We Have Come Amongst You" | p. 451 |
| Paddy Graydon's Civil War | p. 453 |
| Custer's Last Letter Home | p. 455 |
| Mrs. Custer Hears the News | p. 457 |
| The Western Way with Words | p. 459 |
| "Jose Maria Martin! Stand Up!" | p. 461 |
| "Stand Up, Ye Son-of-a-Bitch" | p. 463 |
| Why Wilderness? | p. 466 |
| "The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal" | p. 470 |
| "To The World!!" | p. 474 |
| "I Ask: What Is Life?" | p. 475 |
| Fiction | p. 481 |
| The Rules of the Game | p. 483 |
| The Outcasts of Poker Flat | p. 486 |
| The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky | p. 496 |
| Cabin Fever | p. 506 |
| Honey in the Horn | p. 509 |
| "It Must Be Something Exciting" | p. 516 |
| McTeague | p. 522 |
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