NMLP P-044826 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sherman Alexie · Atlantic Monthly Press, New York · 1993

US Atlantic Monthly Press 1993 (hardcover) is the true first. First-thus trap: the 2005 Grove Press issue is an expanded edition adding two new stories and is NOT the first edition, nor is the 2013 20th-anniversary paperback. The census cites a later UK edition; the UK publisher is not independently confirmed here.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-044826 for "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" by Sherman Alexie (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044826, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).