Western Classics features an adaptation of Zane Grey's grand western prototype, Riders of the Purple Sage, illustrated by Cynthia Martin. Plus stories by Bret Harte, Willa Cather, Gertrude Atherton and John G. Neihardt, with art and adaptations by Trina Robbins, John Findley, Arnold Arre, George Sellas, Reno Maniquis, and Ryan Huna Smith. Also an early Hopalong Cassidy story illustrated by original Hoppy newspaper strip artist Dan Spiegle, and a comic western by Conan creator Robert E. Howard.