Introduction / by Peter Glassman
From Shane / by Jack Schaefer
From Lonesome dove / by Larry McMurtry
A buffalo hunt / by Nat Love
The gift of Cochise / by Louis L'Amour
The blood bay / by Annie Proulx
Three-ten to Yuma / by Elmore Leonard
From The secret life of cowboys / by Tom Groneberg
Twelve o'clock / by Stephen Crane
From Riders of the purple sage / by Zane Grey
Shallow graves / by E. C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott
I woke up wicked / by Dorothy M. Johnson
The bandana / by J. Frank Dobie
From The Virginian / by Owen Wister
Wine on the desert / by Max Brand
From Biting the dust / by Dirk Johnson
Hewey and the wagon cook / by Elmer Kelton
From Breaking clean / by Judy Blunt
The reformation of Calliope / by O. Henry
Long ride back / by Ed Gorman
Home on the range / by Brewster Higley.