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Lone Star Law: A Lone Star Saga (Texas Rangers Ser.)
By Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton. 2005
A thrilling collection of twelve powerful and action-packed stories that celebrate the legendary Texas Rangers from Louis L&’Amour, the world&’s…
greatest Western storyteller, Rod Miller, and many more. Explore the proud heritage of the elite Texas Rangers in these exhilarating, white-knuckled stories. From historical tales of outlaws and rustlers to modern thrillers of tracking serial killers with the latest technology, Lone Star Law is an outstanding collection of stories about delivering justice the Texan way.The Good, The Bad, & The Uncanny: Tales of a Very Weird West
By Greg Cox, Laura Gilman, Scott Sigler, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Aaron Rosenberg, Maurice Broaddus, Carrie Harris, James Moore, Josh Malerman, Marguerite Reed, R. S. Belcher, Jeffrey Mariotte, Cullen Bunn, Jennifer Brody, C. Sellner, John Hartness. 2023
Gunslingers. Lawmen. Snake-oil Salesmen. Cowboys. Mad Scientists. And a few monsters.The Old West has never been wilder!THE GOOD, THE BAD,…
AND THE UNCANNY presents sixteen original and never-before-published adventures by some of today' s most visionary writers who have spun wildly offbeat tales of gunmen, lawmen, magic, and weird science.Saddle up with Josh Malerman, Scott Sigler, Keith DeCandido, Cullen Bunn, R.S. Belcher, Greg Cox, Jeffrey Mariotte, Laura Anne Gilman, Aaron Rosenberg, Maurice Broaddus, John G. Hartness, Carrie Harris, James A. Moore, Marguerite Reed, C. Edward Sellner, Carrie Harris, and Jennifer Brody! These tales twist the American West into a place of darkness, shadows, sudden death, terror in the night, bold heroism, devious magic, and shocking violence.Each story blazes a new trail through very strange territory – discovering weird science, ancient evil, mythic creatures, and lightning-fast action.Edited by Jonathan Maberry, NY Times bestselling author of GHOSTWALKERS: A DEADLANDS NOVEL, the Joe Ledger Thrillers, V-WARS, and KAGEN THE DAMNED.Hot biscuits: eighteen stories by women and men of the ranching West
By Max Evans, Candy Vyvey Moulton. 2002
A collection of short stories by cowboys and cowgirls of the "real working west." Diverse tales of ranch hands, a…
horse trainer, and even murder have a few themes in common: hard work, survival among the elements, and homemade biscuits. Includes Jimbo Brewer's Spur Award-winner, "The Old Man." 2002Desperadoes
By Martin Greenberg, Ed Gorman. 2001
A collection of seventeen short westerns about men in trouble--gamblers, outlaws, miners, and lawmen--some victims of circumstance, others because of…
their own doing. Includes Louis L'Amour's "The Town No Guns Could Tame" as well as works by Loren D. Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Bill Gulick, and others. 2001The Best of the West 4: new stories from the wide side of the Missouri
By James Thomas, Denise Thomas. 1991
Sixteen short stories that take place in the Western United States and have a Western "attitude". The imaginary West, the…
Real West, the New West, and the Old West converge in this celebration of that fascinating landscape. The stories are modern with present day themes and are for the most part serious in nature. Descriptions of sex, violence and strong languageThe Best of the West 5: new stories from the wide side of the Missouri
By James Thomas, Denise Thomas. 1992
Fifteen literary short stories set in the American West, this book draws from a wide variety of national and regional…
magazines such as The New Yorker, Atlantic, Quarterly West, and Southwest Review. Contains explicit descriptions of sexThe Interior country: stories of the modern West
By Alexander Blackburn. 1987
The sixteen short stories and three novel excerpts featured in this compilation demonstrate the unique focus of modern Western literature…
upon the inner nuances of human experience. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence and strong languageThe New frontier: the best of today's western fiction
By Joe Lansdale. 1989
Written in the 1980s, this collection of short stories includes traditional western adventures and stories that push the western in…
new directions. From masters of the genre as well as some of the new starsThe Morrow anthology of great Western short stories
By Jon Tuska. 1997
This collection of twenty-eight western short stories from the 1920s-1990s includes works by renowned writers such as Zane Grey, Max…
Brand, Conrad Richter, Alan LeMay, and Cherry Wilson, as well as contemporary tales by Richard Wheeler, Ernest Haycox, and Cynthia Haseloff. Some strong languageBest of the West III: more stories that inspired classic western films (Best of the West Ser. #3)
By Bill Pronzini, Martin Greenberg. 1990
Nine western stories later made into movies. Includes "Massacre" by James Warner Bellah, starring Henry Fonda and John Wayne as…
cavalrymen at Little Big Horn. In Dorothy M. Johnson's "The Hanging Tree," Gary Cooper is Doctor Joe Frail, who falls in love with Elizabeth, played by Maria Schell. ViolenceA century of great Western stories
By John Jakes. 2000
Thirty western short stories from the twentieth century. Includes work by Louis L'Amour, Jack London, Elmer Kelton, Luke Short, Max…
Brand, and Zane Grey. Introduction by John Jakes. Some violence. 2000Nineteen short western stories from well-known authors like Louis L'Amour, John Jakes, Elmore Leonard, and John D. MacDonald. In Lost…
Sister a white woman is returned to her family after living with Indians for forty years. In Markers two cowpokes ponder the different epitaphs they have read. Some violence. 1994American West: twenty new stories
By Loren D. Estleman. 2001
Twenty nontraditional "western" tales. "The Guardians," a story by Don Coldsmith, is based on a historical incident in which Native…
Americans are not attackers but protectors. In "A Piano at Dead Man's Crossing," Johnny D. Boggs writes a moving narrative from the perspective of a piano. Some strong language. 2001A selection of eighteen short stories. Includes "The Idyl of Red Gulch" by Bret Harte, "The Lonesome Road" by O.…
Henry, and tales by Jack London, Mark Twain, John Jakes, Louis L'Amour, Evan Hunter, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, Erle Stanley Gardner, and Ed Gorman. 1996. 1996In 1876, after Custer's defeat on the Little Big Horn, the army is hunting down Sioux warriors. Scout Seamus Donegan…
accompanies the column headed across Montana, finally confronting Chief American Horse at Slim Buttes. Sequel to Reap the Whirlwind (DB 55478). Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1995Tales of the American West: the best of Spur award-winning authors
By Richard S. Wheeler. 2000
Fifteen western short stories spanning the frontier experience. "The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing" by Harry W. Paige depicts the…
despair of a reservation woman at home alone on her thirty-fifth birthday. Loren D. Estleman's "The Cat King of Cochise County" is a comic tale about the discoverer of chicken wire. 2000Still wild: short fiction of the American West, 1950 to the present
By Larry McMurtry. 2000
Author of Lonesome Dove (DB 22959) has compiled twenty tales about the American West by writers of the late twentieth…
century, including Wallace Stegner, Jack Kerouac, Louise Erdrich, Annie Proulx, and William H. Gass. These pieces demonstrate how western stories have evolved and matured since the 1950s. Some strong language. 2000Westward: a fictional history of the American West : 28 original stories celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Western Writers of America
By Dale L. Walker, Western Writers of America Staff. 2003
Anthology of original western stories captures the westward legacy from a North American's first glimpse of a horse in sixteenth-century…
Kansas to a 1913 gunbattle in a Utah copper mine. Authors include Loren D. Estleman, Don Coldsmith, John Jakes, and Richard S. Wheeler. Some strong language. 2003An obituary for Major Reno
By Richard S. Wheeler. 2004
1889. Dying of cancer, Marcus Reno--the man held responsible for Custer's 1876 defeat at the Little Bighorn--grants an interview to…
New York Herald correspondent Joseph Richler in hopes of restoring his honor. Reno's story of treachery, scapegoating, and lost love unfolds alongside his own version of the infamous battle. 2004The Portable western reader (Viking portable library)
By Various, William Kittredge. 1997
Anthology of stories, poems, essays, and excerpts exploring the range and evolution of Western American literature including the Native American…
experience. Features selections by Louise Erdrich, Lewis and Clark, Jack London, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Larry McMurtry, Raymond Carver, W.H. Auden, Ken Kesey, Barry Lopez, and others. 1997