Western stories

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• Alcatraz, by Max Brand (Gutenberg text)
• The Bear-Hunters of the Rocky Mountains (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862), by Anne Bowman (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Black Jack, by Max Brand (Gutenberg text)
• The Boy Hunters, by Mayne Reid
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories (London: Archibald Constable and Co.; Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1906), by Andy Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Crooked Trails, by Frederic Remington (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Dave Porter at Star Ranch: or, The Cowboy's Secret (Boston: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Co., 1910), by Edward Stratemeyer, illust. by Lyle T. Hammond (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Deal in Wheat, and Other Stories of the New and Old West, by Frank Norris (Gutenberg text)
• The Dog Crusoe: A Tale of the Western Prairies (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, 1862), by R. M. Ballantyne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Dog Crusoe and His Master, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio)
• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Frank Merriwell's Bravery (c1903), by Burt L. Standish (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Great Cattle Trail (Philadelphia et al.: J. C. Winston Co., c1894), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Great Sioux Trail: A Story of Mountain and Plain (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1918), by Joseph A. Altsheler, illust. by Charles L. Wrenn
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories, by Owen Wister (Gutenberg text)
• The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1900), by Owen Wister (page images at openlibrary.org)
• The Lost Hunters: A Story of Wild Man and Great Beasts (New York and London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1939), by Joseph A. Altsheler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Love of Life, and Other Stories, by Jack London (HTML at Sonoma)
• Love of Life, and Other Stories, by Jack London, illust. by Charles Livingston Bull (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Mysterious Rider, by Zane Grey (Gutenberg text)
• Redskin and Cow-Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896), by G. A. Henty, illust. by Alfred Pearse (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories of a Western Town, by Octave Thanet (Gutenberg text)
• The Trail Book, by Mary Hunter Austin, illust. by Milo Winter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wayside Courtships, by Hamlin Garland (Gutenberg text)
• What Do Ducks Do in Winter? and Other Western Stories (c1993), by Lewis Horne (HTML at Signature Books)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass", and How Arietta Paid the Toll (from Wild West Weekly, 1908), by Old scout (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama: A Revised American Ed. of the Readers' Handbook (4 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland (page images at Wisconsin)
• Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction, and the Drama: A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook (8 volumes; New York: S. Hess, 1892-1896), by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, ed. by Marion Harland
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, Has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully (Ridgewood, NJ: The Editor Company, c1912), by William Wallace Cook (page images at Google; US access only)
• Last Lectures by Wilfrid Ward: Being the Lowell Lectures, 1914, and Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution, 1915 (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and co., 1918), by Wilfrid Ward, ed. by Mrs. Wilfrid Ward and Maisie Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beginner's Guide to Writing a Novel (fourth edition, 2006), by Marina Oliver (HTML with commentary at HowTo)
• The Career Novelist: A Literary Agent Offers Strategies for Success (c1996), by Donald Maass (PDF in Canada)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (new edition; London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1913), by Ernest Albert Baker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction (20 volumes; New York: P.F. Collier and Son, 1917), ed. by Charles William Eliot (HTML at Bartleby)

• An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction, including Also Familiar Pseudonyms, Surnames Bestowed on Eminent Men, and Analogous Popular Appellations Often Referred to in Literature and Conversation (with appendix; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., c1917), by William A. Wheeler, contrib. by Charles G. Wheeler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Reader's Handbook, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (frame- and JavaScript-dependent HTML at Bibliomania)

• The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes), by James Branch Cabell (HTML at Virginia)
• Criticism and Fiction, by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text)
• The Imaginary Voyage in Prose Fiction: A History of its Criticism and a Guide for its Study, With an Annotated Check List of 215 Imaginary Voyages From 1700 to 1800 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1941), by Philip Babcock Gove (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Novel According to Cervantes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Stephen Gilman (HTML at UC Press)
• Reading Graphs, Maps, Trees: Responses to Franco Moretti (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, c2011), ed. by Jonathan Goodwin and John Holbo (PDF and Flash with commentary at parlorpress.com)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)

• The Dramatic Unity of "Huckleberry Finn" (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1976), by George C. Carrington (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• How to Write and Sell a Novel (revised from Why Write a Novel?; New York: Woodford Press, 1948), by Jack Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Narrative as Rhetoric: Technique, Audiences, Ethics, ideology (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1996), by James Phelan (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• Structure and Theme: "Don Quixote" to James Joyce (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Margaret Church (PDF files with commentary at Ohio State Press)
• This Fiction Business (New York: Covici, Friede, 1929), by H. Bedford-Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

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