A sample of fairly recent anthologies of Western-themed short stories. A good place to start if you’ve never read Westerns before and what to see what they’re like!
Best Stories of the American West
edited by Marc Jaffe (no longer in libraries’ collection)
Black Hats
edited by Robert J. Randisi (no longer in libraries’ collection)
American West: Twenty New Stories
edited by Loren Estleman (813.08 Est)
A Century of Great Western Stories
edited by John Jakes (813.08 Jak)
The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories
edited by John Tuska (no longer in libraries’ collection)
New Writers of the Purple Sage: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Writers
edited by Russell Martin (no longer in libraries’ collection)
Law on the Flying U: Western Stories
edited by Kate Baird Anderson (Bower)
Nights of Terror
edited by Eric Frazee (no longer in libraries’ collection)
The Last Mustang
edited by Bill Pronzini (Bonham)