Book Description No one is more evocative of the dusty, gutsy hey-day of the American West than Elmore Leonard. And no story about a young writer struggling to launch his career ever matched its subject matter better than the tale behind Leonard`s Western oeuvre. In 1950, fresh out of college -- having written two «pointless» stories, as he describes them -- Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull -- Leonard loved movies set in the West. As he researched deeper into settings, Arizona in the 1880s captured his imagination: the Spanish influence, the standoffs and shootouts between Apache Indians and the U.S. cavalry. His first dozen stories sold for 2 cents a word, for each. The rest is history. This first-ever complete collection of Leonard`s thirty Western tales will thrill lovers of…
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