If you’re looking for storytelling that focuses solely on the current struggles and triumphs of the contemporary American West, James Thomas and Seth Horton have revived a series that’s for you. Best of the West 2010: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri offers 19 stories with death as a common thread—from Sherman Alexie’s narrator singing a death song to the death of the


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