Big Book of Best Short Stories - Specials - Western 2

This book contains 25 short stories from 5 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. The stories were carefully selected by the critic August Nemo, in a collection that will please the literature lovers.The theme of this edition is: Western. For more exciting titles, be sure to check out our 7 Best Short Stories and Essential Novelists collections. This book contains: - Owen Wister. - John Fox Jr. - Mary Austin. - Ernest Haycox. - Robert E. Howards.

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He is well known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre. John Fox Jr. (December 16, 1862 July 8, 1919) was an American journalist, novelist, and short story writer. Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. Ernest James Haycox (October 1, 1899 October 13, 1950) was an American author of Western fiction. Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 July 21, 1938) was an American writer and historian, considered the 'father' of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.