Introduction

Life in the cattle country / by Frederick Remington

The trouble man / by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Sugar / by Tom McGuane

The kid / by Walter Noble Burns

A Mexican plug / by Mark Twain

Jack Hildreth among the Indians / by Karl May

An eleven hundred mile horseback ride down the Chisholm Trail / by Charles A. Siringo

Deadwood Dick / by Nat Love

Justice in the saddle / by Andy Adams

Pecos Bill / by Mody C. Boatright

Establishing a ranch on the plains / by James Frank Dobie

Cattle detective / by Tom Horn

The race / by Stewart Edward White

Dodge / by William Macleod Raine

End of the trail (Cowboy logic and frolic) / by Edgar Beecher Bronson

The quest begins / by Max Brand

Aforesaid Bates / by Eugene Manlove Rhodes

Twenty straight on the prairie ;/ by Emerson Hough

Hopalong nurses a grouch / by Clarence E. Mulford

Cowboy Dave / by Frank V. Webster

How I became a cowboy / by Frank Harris

Lonesome dove / by Larry McMurtry

The last running / by John Graves.