They Opened The West Author:Tom W. Blackburn Out of the myriad legends of the Great Waet, the myths and tall tales. the infamous yarns and dusty recollections emerges the true story of one of the world's great sagas - the settlement of the American West. This fifteenth Annual Anthology by the Western Writers of America commemorates-in thirteen tales of fact and fiction-this vigorous,unpara... more »lleled era inour nations history,a time of raw beginning in a land stretching almost beyond imagination.« less