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Part I. Humor in the West - a changing picture -- "Ancestral eagles" (from Indian stories from the Pueblos)/ Frank G. Applegate -- "The marriage of Moon Wind" (from Branded West) / Bill Gulick -- "Louis Champlain's party" (from Stay away Joe) / Dan Cushman -- "A night in town"( from Men and horses) / Ross Santee -- "Old fooler in action" (from The rounders) / Max Evans -- "Partners" (from The Cadillac cowboys) / Glendon Swarthout -- "Little piñon fires" (from No high adobe) / Dorothy Pillsbury -- "Life at Sagrado" (from Red sky at morning) / Richard Bradford -- "Joe Mondragón defies the establishment" (from The Milagro beanfield war) / John Nichols -- Part II. New times, new faces : humor in contemporary Western fiction -- "The real Wild Bill Hickok" (from Little Big Man) / Thomas Berger -- "The history of Sheriff C.L. Hoke Birdsill" (from The ballad of Dingus Magee) / David Markson -- "Tom Horn meets Al Sieber" (from I, Tom Horn) / Will Henry -- "Jamie meets Jim Bridger" (from The travels of Jaimie McPheeters) / Robert Lewis Taylor -- "Ike Bender's Indian scare" (from The road to many a wonder) / David Wagoner -- "Flashy and sonsee-array" (from Flashman and the redskins) / George MacDonald Fraser -- "Reel 11" (from God's other son) / Don Imus -- "Spotlight on Cullie Blanton" (from The one-eyed man) / Larry L. King -- "Seldom-seen Smith" (from The monkey wrench gang) / Edward Abbey -- "The founding of Caliche" (from The return of the Virginian) / H. Allen Smith -- "Janet and her songs" (from Baja Oklahoma) / Dan Jenkins -- "Freight train" (from Peeper) / William Brinkley. |
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