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First printing. A varied selection of Western fiction by women writers; they began writing seriously about the West starting in the late 19th century, and some women, like B. M. Bower, had sales comparable to those of Zane Grey. Includes the following stories: The Conquest of Dona Jacoba by Gertrude Atherton; On the Divide by Willa Cather; A Yellow Man and A White by Eleanor Gates; The Walking Woman by Mary Austin; The Lamb of the Flying U by B.M. Bower; The Girl In the Humbert by Mari Sandoz; First Notch by Elsa Barker; The Brushoff by Peggy Curry; The Warhorse of Spotted Tail by Amelia Bean; The Promise of the Fruit by Ann Ahlswede; A Season For Heroes by Carla Kelly; Sweet Cactus Wine by Marcia Muller; The Debt by Jeanne Williams and the long story, The Hanging Tree, by Dorothy M. Johnson. Edited and with an introduction by Pronzini and Muller. 372 pp. Very good in very good+ dust jacket (some spotting to top edge of text block, slight spine slant) .ISBN # 0-688-047017 

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