Saddle up for a wild ride through those thrilling days of yesteryear. In Stories of the Old West, Steven Price serves up a heapin' helpin' of tales of America's frontier days: ranches and rodeos, lawmen and desperadoes, saloons and gunslingers, wilderness exploring and range warfare, and everything else that reflects our fascination with our Western heritage from its earliest untamed era to the dawn of the 20th Century. Contributors include Zane Grey, Buffalo Bill Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, Calamity Jane, Stewart Edward White, Frederic Remington, Ned Buntline, Mark Twain ("Roughing It"), Thomas North, Willa Cather, Helen Cody Wetmore, O. Henry, Bret Harte and Owen Wister, to name only a few.

Steven D. Price is the author or editor of more than forty books. His compilations include The Smartest Things Ever Said, The Dumbest Things Ever Said, The Best Advice Ever Given, and the best-selling The Whole Horse Catalog. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he holds a JD from Yale Law School. He is also a resident of New York City and a keen observer of human achievement and folly.
Tom McCarthy is an award-winning editor and writer who lives in Guilford, Connecticut.