Boot Hill

Randisi, Robert J., editor

ISBN 10: 0765300818 / ISBN 13: 9780765300812

Published by Forge Books, 2002

About this Item

NF/NF. First edition, first printing. Short stories by Elmer Kelton, Richard Wheeler, Randy Lee Eickhoff, others. 351 pp.

Seller Inventory # 22933

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boot Hill
• Publisher: Forge Books
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765300818
• ISBN 13: 9780765300812
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • List No. 5 - Western American Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Featuring original short stories by Elmer Kelton, James Reasoner, Randy Lee Eickhoff, Robert Vaughan, Richard S. Wheeler, Tom Piccirilli, Ed Gorman and many others!

"They died with their boots on."

So goes the old cliché that sums up the untimely demise of many a man in the wilder towns of the Old West-and no town was wilder, or home to more untimely demises, than the ultimate City of Sin, Dodge City. The overcrowded cemetery in Dodge was known as Boot Hill, and it was filled with some of the wildest characters in American history.

In this remarkable anthology, Robert Randisi has collected the most successful Western authors currently writing to create a short story collection that tells the stories of Boot Hill-from the coffin-maker with a death wish to the drunken cowboy haunted by one night of greed and violence, to the vigilante piano man and the tough-talking soiled dove. With original stories by Elmer Kelton, James Reasoner, Randy Lee Eickhoff, Robert Vaughan, Richard S. Wheeler, Tom Piccirilli, Ed Gorman and many others, as well as a reprinted story from John Jakes, Boot Hill is a unique and powerful collection that captures the wild and bizarre characters that populated the American West.

About the Author

Robert J. Randisi has edited some twenty anthologies in the Western and mystery genres. He is also the creator and author of the long-running series, The Gunsmith.