First published 2010
Paul Andrew Hutton assembles the Western Writers of America's finest voices in this collection that spans the full spectrum of the American West. Television veteran Andrew Fenady contributes a complete novella, while Wister Award winners Elmer Kelton, Robert M. Utley, Matthew Braun, and Richard Wheeler deliver stories that break new ground. Spur Award recipients Johnny Boggs, John Nesbitt, Paul Hedren, Don Birchfield, Miles Swarthout, and Red Shuttleworth add their distinctive perspectives. The anthology moves beyond traditional frontier narratives to explore Native American experiences, contemporary ranch life, mining communities, and modern urban challenges across the region. These writers craft fiction and nonfiction pieces, poetry, and longer works that reveal fresh angles on Western life from past to future.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, 20th-century, american, adventure, 21st-century
Vibes: suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family
Setting: American West
Period: Past, Present, Future
384 pages · Paperback · La Frontera Publishing