Originally published in the UK as The Mammoth book of the western, 1991.

Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- Way Out West / Mark Twain -- A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop / Frederic Remington -- The Caballero's Way / O. Henry -- The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky / Stephen Crane -- On the Divide / Willa Cather -- Bad Penny / B.M. Bower -- All Gold Canyon / Jack London -- The Last Thunder Song / John G. Neihardt -- Under the Lion's Paw / Hamlin Garland -- The Ranger / Zane Grey -- Wine on the Desert / Max Brand -- At the Sign of the Last Chance / Owen Wister -- Early Americana / Conrad Richter -- The Wind and the Snow of Winter / Walter Van Thilburg Clark -- When You Carry the Star / Ernest Haycox -- The Young Warrior / Oliver la Farge -- The Big Sky / A.B. Guthrie -- Command / James Warner Bellah -- Burn Him Out / Frank Bonham -- The Colt / Wallace Stegner -- A Man Called Horse / Dorothy M. Johnson -- Great Medicine / Steve Frazee -- Emmet Dutrow / Jack Schaefer -- River Polak / Mari Sandoz -- Blood on the Sun / Thomas Thompson -- Beecher Island / Wayne D. Overholser -- Desert Command / Elmer Kelton -- The Bandit / Loren D. Estleman -- There Will Be Peace in Korea / Larry McMurtry -- C.B. & Q. / Edward Dorn -- The Man to Send Rain Clouds / Leslie Marmon Silko -- The Waterfowl Tree / William Kittredge -- Days of Heaven / Rick Bass -- Hole in the Day / Christopher Tilghman -- The Hundred Best Western Novels -- The Hundred Best Western Short Stories.