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A collection of short stories about the Old West features the tale of the blind lawman who sharpens his other senses to face a killer, a boy who thinks he can outshoot the fastest gunman in town, and other tales. Original.
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From Publishers Weekly
The closing American frontier comes to grips with the encroaching forces of civilization in this compelling and historically accurate anthology by the author of Journal of the Gun Years. Central to most stories is the notion that civilization has brought with it a new sense of order that is in direct conflict with the previously existing one; now most gunfights are to establish or preserve one's personal sense of honor rather than to protect one's life. In one story, a young Easterner, enthralled by newspaper accounts of fast-gun heroes, is determined to make a name for himself as a gunslinger, only to pay for his recklessness with his life. In another story, a deranged gunman, unable to cope with a changing economic and social climate, holds a saloon hostage in a tense and eventually bloody standoff. A cycle of violence is set in motion in another story in which a chance gunfight marks its reluctant victor as a target for everyone who wishes to prove his hand is the fastest. Originally written in the mid-1950s, when Matheson was writing screenplays for television programs, including The Twilight Zone , these stories appear fresh, due in part to the spare prose and restrained use of action.
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These six beautifully crafted short stories by a superb writer (Gunfight, LJ 3/15/93) feature guns of the Old West and the people who used them. Included are stories of a sheriff who is going blind yet fights to keep his town the most peaceful one in the state, a 16-year-old boy who kills to save his little herd of 50 cows, and a crazed gunman shooting up a saloon who is stopped dead by a young woman and a derringer. A book to keep and to cherish.
Sister Avila, Acad. of the Holy Angels, Minneapolis
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- PublisherBerkley
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0425140997
- ISBN 13 9780425140994
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages179
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