Substance: Western stories with a subtle twist. These are the only ones Sturgeon ever wrote, at the request of the editor of Zane Grey's Western, a magazine , and were two were published there in the late 1940s-early 1950s. One was published in Luke Short's Western magazine, two in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and two were not published before this collection. Talk about your cross-over author.
"Cactus Dance" has a hint of the fantasy Sturgeon favored, but the rest are pretty straight-forward Westerns, with interesting insights on human character, and some drollery.
Style: Any of them would make a good Western film or tv episode. ( )

Like Leigh Brackett, Theodore Sturgeon tried his hand at the cowboy story. Unlike Brackett, he had no great hits in this genre. These are quite forgettable. The Anthology was published in 1973, but the stories are earlier. ( )