The rugged Western frontier: a landscape of mining settlements and cow towns; cattle ranges and burgeoning cities, settled and transformed by the legendary American cowboy. Welcome to Tales of the Old West: Songs & Stories, the captivating audio collection on 3 compact discs. Celebrating the mythic life of this hard-scrabble folk hero who opened the West to a new breed of pioneer searching for a homestead of their own, Songs & Stories takes the listener on an evocative journey through the colorful past, a past of wild stampedes for cattle and for land.