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Click to enlargeAll-Time Favorite Cowboy Stories

Rochelle Kronzek
Our Price$8.95New!(Table of Contents)
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486469069
Page Count: 272
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
A corral of cattle rustlers, outlaws, and other desperadoes awaits in this bronco-busting anthology of 19 cowboy tales set in the Old West. The roundup includes a 1902 story by Owen Wister excerpted from The Virginian — which shaped the Western fiction genre — and more by such favorites as Zane Grey, O. Henry, Mark Twain, and Frederic Remington.
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