Bits of Silver Vignettes of the Old West
Edited by Don Ward
- New York Hastings House 1961
- 306 p.
Red men and White: Many soldiers falling into camp / Mari Sandoz -- Sixty lodges standing / Mari Sandoz -- Hide hunter / Mari Sandoz -- Cow country: Cattle roundup -- trailing out from Bloody Basin / Frazier Hunt -- Cow camp chuck / Fay E. Ward -- High color: Hail the glorious overland! / Ellis Lucia -- The silver camps -- Bad actors: Bill the Kid breaks jail / Frazier Hunt -- The worst outlaw since Sam Bass / Harold Preece -- The killing of Jack the Ripper -- Pocket history of a bad man's progress / Pat Jahns -- Hill folk: Whuppin' Holler / Charles Morrow Wilson -- Gransplanted Tennesseans / Frank C. Robertson -- Harbor hamlet to boom town: The village of Yerba Buena --The native sons of Golden California / Carleton Beals -- Fact and legend: The cannibal / Homer Croy -- The lost Dutchman mine -- The O.K. Corral fight -- The hermit of the superstitions / Joseph Miller -- The four-footed: Lord of the plains / Mari Sandoz -- The fight of the bulls / Mari Sandoz -- Wild horses -- Long shadows: The story of Print Olive / Mari Sandoz -- Two of populism's favorites / Dale Kramer -- King of wheels / Ellis Lucia -- Jest and departure / Mari Sandoz
Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) --Short Stories