The Western Writings of Stephen Crane Author:Edited by Frank Bergon This unique collection brings together the complete range of writing that emerged from Crane's western experience. It includes such classic tales as "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" which ironically depicts the frontier being irrevocably changed by encroaching civilization, and "The Blue Hotel" an unsurpassed evocation of the West as both a state... more » of mind and a brutal reality. But there is also the journalist's hand at work in the nonfiction pieces included here.With Crane, we visit the lusty, brawling, emerging city of Galveston; we view the desolation of drought-parched Nebraska; we meet Easterners wielding six-guns in Texas, and cowboys living on their legends in New York. Above all, we come to learn through Crane's perceptive writing what the West meant-and still means today-to the American psyche.« less