FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, JUNE 1990

Copyright 1951, 1953,
© 1957, 1958, 1963, 1978, 1985, 1988, 1989 by
Peter Matthiessen

All rights reserved under International
and Pan-American Copyright Conventions.
Published in the United States by Vintage Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in
Canada by Random House
of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Originally published, in hardcover,
by Random House, Inc, in 1989.

“Sadie” and “The Fifth Day” were first
published in The Atlantic. “Late in the Season”
was first published in New World Writing
(NAL). “Travelin Man” was first published in
Harper’s Magazine. “The Wolves of Aguila”
was first published in Harper’s Bazaar. “Horse
Latitudes” was published by Antaeus (originally
published in Venture as “Horace and Hassid”).
“Midnight Turning Gray” was first published in
The Saturday Evening Post. “On the River Styx”
was first published in Esquire. “Lumumba Lives”
was first published in Wigwag.

Most of the stories in this collection were
originally published in book form in Midnight
Turning Gray, published by Ampersand Press in 1984.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Matthiessen, Peter.
On the river Styx and other stories /
Peter Matthiessen.
p.   cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-81968-0
I. Title.
PS3563.A858405    1990   813′.54—dc 20
89-40508

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