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The Western Short Story MEGAPACK(R)
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781667666709
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Apr 13 2026
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ride the dusty trails of the Old West in eighteen hard-riding tales pulled from the golden age of the pulps. Gunfighters, cowpunchers, pony express riders, prospectors, and range-war veterans come alive on every page, their fortunes turning on a sudden draw, a cold camp, or a glance across a crowded saloon.
From a drifter on the dodge running one jump ahead of the law, to a lonely rider strung out across the sage on a killing errand, these stories capture the frontier as readers first met it-vivid, violent, and honest about the cost of survival. Rustlers circle the herd by moonlight. A greenhorn learns that courage and a six-shooter don't always travel together. Old feuds ripen into gunsmoke beneath a pitiless sun.
Included are:
- Sixteen to One on Friday, by W.C. Tuttle
- Gold, by Burt Leslie
- Bound South, by Ernest Haycox
- On the Dodge, by Will James
- Conversation, by J. Frank Davis
- The Man from Oregon, by Mary B. Arbuckle
- Old Slowpoke, by Howard E. Morgan
- The old 'Yaller' Shirt, by Ray Humphreys
- War Paint, by Robert Winchester
- The Bar Act, by Bud La Mar
- A Perfect Gentleman, by Mark Price
- Mountain Killers, by Thomas Barclay Thomson
- Empty Bottles, by Raymond S. Spears
- Gun play, by Michael J. Phillips
- The Man Who Hated Himself, by Walt Coburn
- The Pony Express Rider, by Earl C. McCain
- Where the West begins, by Austin Hall
- The Strike at Too Dry, by Willis Brindley
Collected here for the first time, these adventure yarns deliver the real pulp-era West: lean prose, bigger- than-life heroes, and a horizon that always seems one more ridge away.
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