WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES—WHY COWS NEED COWBOYS

WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES

WHY COWS NEED COWBOYS

AND OTHER SELDOM TOLD TALES FROM THE AMERICAN WEST

Welcome to Western Writers of America’s first anthology for young readers. In this collection of true tales of the West, we leave textbook history in the rearview mirror and take you on a tour of twenty seldom-told dramas, the kind you might stumble across only if you leave the main road to wander the detours and byways of the American story. Here you’ll meet extraordinary characters, from a young buffalo hunter of prehistoric times to riders for the Pony Express, the first African American female stagecoach driver, and the Navajo code talkers of World War II. Did you know that in 1821, a Plains Indian girl trekked 1,400 miles to visit Washington, DC? Or that two brave children, eight and ten years old, took part in the Texas Revolution? Tales in this anthology range wide in time, topic, and mood, yet all celebrate a spirit that is uniquely Western.

 

Founded in 1953, Western Writers of America is the nation’s oldest and most distinguished organization of professionals writing about the early frontier and the American West, its past and present. Now in our sixty-eighth year, our more than seven hundred members write fiction and nonfiction, songs, poetry, short stories, plays for stage and screen, and more. The contributors to this anthology, WWA members all, include bestselling authors and winners of numerous prestigious literary awards...With Why Cows Need Cowboys, we invite you to journey westward with us, and we hope you enjoy the ride.

 

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WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES—UNDER WESTERN STARS

WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES

UNDER WESTERN STARS

As the sun goes down behind the long, low western horizon, imagine a gathering of friends who write stories, share stories, encourage new stories, and visit about the craft of fiction.

As a reader, you’ll find stories about family, lost and found. Tales of Civil War and reconciliation. Gunfighters. Bounty hunters. Small towns and cemeteries. You’ll find ghosts, real and imagined. Adventure and romance. You’ll make new friends and rekindle old flames. You’ll live under western stars, with a harvest moon overhead and laughter and suspense all around.

 

Western stories by Terry Alexander, Ben Goheen, James J. Griffin, J. L. Guin, J. E. S. Hays, Easy Jackson, Jackson Lowry, Susan Murrie MacDonald, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Edward Massey, Meg Mims, Clay More, Michael Newton, Richard Prosch, Angela Raines, Gordon L. Rottman, Barbara Shepherd, Charlie Steel, G. Wayne Tilman, Benjamin Thomas, Big Jim Williams, and Kevin Wolf.

 

Edited by Richard Prosch.

 

Pull up a stump and join us around the campfire.

 

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WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES—HOBNAIL

WESTERN ANTHOLOGIES

HOBNAIL

Hot off the press from Five Star Publishing, Hobnail and Other Frontier Stories is the fourth collection of short stories edited by Hazel Rumney, who Tiffany Schofield calls, a slayer of cliches and ‘ly’ adverbs. Ms. Rumney’s work shines here, as does the story-telling talent of more than a dozen top-notch writers of action, irony, and intrigue west of the 100th meridian. Sixgun Justice podcast co-host Richard Prosch has an excellent story included in this anthology.

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