Class relations in Jean Stafforrd's Western stories

The 3rd (of 4) sections in Jean Stafford's Collected Stories (1969) is called Cowboys and Indians, and Magic Mountains, which tells me that this section is a grab-bag holding stories that didn't fit into the other 3 and more obvious categories. The first few stories do have Western settings, and perhaps others in this section are set at sanatoriums? In any event, one common thread that we see in the Western stories (and not so much in the stories in the first 2 sections, Bostonians and Innocents Abroad) is class consciousness. The West, in Stafford's view, is largely a place from which intelligent people flee, as we see in some of her Boston stories as well, notably in The Bleeding Heart, a great story about a young woman from the West come to NE to work in a boarding school. Among the Western stories, both Healthiest Girl in Town and The Tea Time paint a horrific picture of class prejudice and ignorance, that we largely see through the eyes of one who suffers in service to the wealthy people in town and to the tourists and vacationers (one of the stories is in the 1st person, an outlier among Stafford's narrators). Stafford gives us in these stories a totally unconventional vision of the West, which is usually either romanticized or ignored (the Midwest is different - plenty of stories about leaving an Ohio/Nebraska/prairie farm/small town for the East, Cather, Anderson, even FS Fitzgerald to a degree). With Stafford we see those who serve - in particular at the dude ranches or, in healthiest, in nursing service to those who come to the mountain states for the air. Than, in another 1st-person narration, The Mountain Day, Stafford turns the POV upside down; this story is told by an 18-year-old from an extremely wealthy family, ensconced in their summer place - a vast spread including a lake, mountains, trails - who becomes engaged and who feels as if she's on the top of the world, so to speak, until an unexpected tragedy involving servants ruins their day. Everyone treats the servants well, or at least she sees it that way!, but we have the clear sense throughout that the labor of others, no matter how well treated, is spent on the pampering of the wealthy and on maintaining their illusions of peace and beauty and prosperity.