Heart of the West's humorous and sentimental stories of sheep herders, cow punchers, trail cooks, prospectors, outlaws, and Texas Rangers offer the modern reader a window into the often mythologized American West.
Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, O. Henry, Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper & Sherwood Anderson
O. Henry, Saki, Ellis Parker Butler, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Washington Irving, James Whitcomb Riley & May Isabel Fisk
George Pope Morris, Eliza Leslie, George William Curtis, Edward Everett Hale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Frank Richard Stockton, Bret Harte, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Grace MacGowan Cooke, Wells Hastings, William James Lampton, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Richard Malcolm Johnston, Harry Stillwell Edwards, Caroline Matilda Kirkland & Edgar Allan Poe
