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PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100765300818

ISBN-139780765300812

eBay Product ID (ePID)1819118

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Book TitleBoot Hill : an Anthology of the West

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWesterns

Publication Year2002

FeaturesRevised

GenreFiction

AuthorRobert J. Randisi

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length8.7 in

Item Width5.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2001-058280

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"A unique and powerful collection."-Tulsa World "These yarns are packed with vividly described gunplay."-Library Journal "The writers have turned out concise stories that capture the essence of the time and place. Each story has a captivating twist, employing imagery in a refreshing manner. . . . Every writer has produced a jewel."-The Daily Oklahoman "Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserves to be made one of the immortals of literature."-El Paso Herald-Post, "A unique and powerful collection."- Tulsa World "These yarns are packed with vividly described gunplay."- Library Journal "The writers have turned out concise stories that capture the essence of the time and place. Each story has a captivating twist, employing imagery in a refreshing manner. . . . Every writer has produced a jewel."- The Daily Oklahoman "Elmer Kelton is a Texas treasure, as important for his state as Willa Cather is for Nebraska and Badger Clark for South Dakota. Kelton truly deserves to be made one of the immortals of literature."- El Paso Herald-Post

Dewey Decimal813/.087408

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisFeaturing 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 Hillis a unique and powerful collection that captures the wild and bizarre characters that populated the American West., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS648.W4B66 2002