The American heritage book of great adventures of the Old West, [electronic resource] compiled by the editors of American heritage. Introd. by Archibald Hanna, Jr.

"I gave him barks and saltpeter ... ", by P.R. Cutright.--How lost was Zebulon Pike? by D. Jackson.--A man to match the mountains, by A.M. Josephy, Jr.--Ordeal in Hell's Canyon, by A.M. Josephy, Jr.--The ballad of Cynthia Ann, by D.C. Peattie.--The storming of the Alamo, by C. Ramsdell.--First dude ranch trip to the untamed West, by A.M. Josephy, Jr.--The smart ones got through, by G.R. Stewart.--Murder at the place of rye grass, by N.W. Ross.--"Here is my home at last!" by C. Carmer.--Gold! by R.K. Andrist.--Great days of the Overland stage, by W.E. Hollon.--"Go it, Washoe!" by R. Nadeau.--The iron spine, by H. Sturgis.--"Don't let them ride over us," by G.M. Heinzman.--Pharoah had it easy, by W.G. Magnuson.--The great diamond fraud, by H.H. Crosby.--The bloody end of Meeker's Utopia, by M. Sprague.--Geronimo! by E.M. Halliday.--The Johnson County War, by H.H. Smith.

Twenty true adventure stories by noted Western authors on the Alamo, the gold rush, Geronimo and the Lincoln County War, etc.