"In Best Little Stories from the Wild West, journalist C. Brian Kelly spins a thrilling history of the settling of the West from a chronology of tales and anecdotes that span the plains and mountain ranges between the banks of the Missouri River and the Pacific coast, with stops at historic milestones along the way: the Civil War, the Battle of the Alamo, the Mormon migration to Utah, Custer's Last Stand, and many more. Fold heroes and heroines strut through these stories, but so do ordinary men and women whose participation in pivotal evens fueled the West's reputation as a place where everyone lived larger than life." --inside cover.