The Wild, Wild West

Experience the raw power and savage spirit of the American West in The Wild, Wild West, a gripping anthology that brings together legendary authors for a thrilling journey into the heart of the frontier. From gritty factual accounts to classic fictional tales, this collection captures the quick-trigger tempers, savage spirit, and high-stakes drama that defined the era. This  collection  Western stories is written by masters from outside the genre.  These fiction  and firsthand accounts  on the Wild West are by many of the world's most famous authors who were alive at that time, including Dickens, Wilde, Emerson, Whitman, Longfellow, Muir, Irving, Thoreau, Twain, Kipling, Bierce, London, James Fenimore Cooper, O. Henry, Bret Harte, Zane Grey, Max Brand, Stephen Crane, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The selections involve gunfights, outlaws, gold mining, the Pony Express, stagecoach robberies, cowboys, card sharks, vigilantes, lynchings, ghost towns, and sheep, along with tributes to Custer and to the Native Americans who did him in.   In a Max Brand tale, a town offers to reward a gunslinger for bringing in a stage robber dead or alive, leading to a battle of wits in the outlaw's canyon hideout. A story by Stephen Crane involves four men who play a card game for fun which ends in death, while Jack London tells of a deadly struggle between a hard-working prospector and an opportunistic murderer over a load of gold. Then there's the very first story that introduced the Cisco Kid to the world, along with the jumping frog story that made Mark Twain famous.  Ride along with cowboys, outlaws, and gunslingers as they face down danger, seek fortune in the gold rush, and carve out a new life in the brutal, untamed landscape. It's a compelling compilation of lawlessness, survival, and justice, where every tale is as untamed as the land itself.  

John Richard Stephens is the author/editor of 25 books, including Mark Twain's Hawaii, Wyatt Earp Speaks, Commanding the Storm, Life Along the Shore, and Life Under the Sea. John's books have been reprinted as selections of the Preferred Choice Book Club, the Quality Paperback Book Club, the Book of the Month Club, and the Civil War Trust. His work has been published as far away as India and Singapore and has been translated into Japanese and Finnish.

Dusty trails and lawless towns of the Wild West come alive