01994cam a2200301 i 4500 664727393 TxAuBib 20230222120000.0 210930s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021048044 9781432892340 hardcover 1432892347 hardcover 9781432892357 paperback 1432892355 paperback TxAuBib rda Warren, Mark, 1947- The westering trail travesties : five little-known tales of the Old West that probably ought to a' stayed that way / Mark Warren. First edition. Waterville, Maine : Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, [2022] 405 pages ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "These five stories range from the surreal to the tear-jerker, as the Old West is held upside down by its boots and shaken until all common sense falls out into the crucible of parody. In Rumors from the Edge of the World, Kid Concho and his Arizona outlaw gang of misfits stumble upon a prophetic Apache spring. Too Long in the Saddle follows the exploits of a Boston newspaper reporter who is ordered on assignment to frontier Kansas. Code of the Ranger travels with a quartet of Arizona Rangers who-without extradition papers-must ride undercover into Texas to bring back Bad Bob Banning. Once they capture him, can they make it out of Texas alive? In Gourd, fourteen-year-old Curtis Blaydes loses his father and mother. Alone he continues to run the family homestead in the hinterlands of south Texas, until a visitor arrives. Niobrara introduces a notable triangle of youngsters in northern Nebraska. When they grow older, the triangle breaks under the stress of divergent careers"-- Provided by publisher. 20230222. Short stories. Novellas.