In The Best of the West: An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West, beloved author Tony Hillerman curates an extraordinary collection of over 140 landmark texts. Spanning nearly five centuries—from early exploration to modern highways—this volume brings the vast, rugged region to life through diaries, news dispatches, travelogues, short stories, and historical inscriptions. Unfiltered and wide-ranging, it captures every facet of the Western experience: Native peoples, cowboys, Latinos, homesteaders, outlaws, railroaders, and military campaigns. Alongside iconic documents like Chief Joseph’s surrender speech and William B. Travis’s letter from the Alamo, Hillerman includes forgotten gems, such as Custer’s final letter home and the Tombstone Epitaph’s firsthand report of the OK Corral gunfight.
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