Take a photo of a barcode or cover
anthonycardellini 's review for:
Battleborn
by Claire Vaye Watkins
Not fiction about the West so much as fiction about Nevada. Watkins has a fascinating backstory and uses that to establish credence in the first story. I wasn't sure her gold rush story was as brutal as it might have been, but this is probably related to my recent attempt to read Blood Meridian. I thought the contemporary stories were the best ones, especially "Man-O-War" and "Virginia City."