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Introduction  John Jakes

Preface   John Jakes

The Gift of Cochise  Louis L’Amour

The Tin Star  John M. Cunningham

Killers’ Country!     Dan Cushman

Timberline    Owen Wister

All Gold Canyon     Jack London

The Lamb of the Flying U B. M. Bower

Gun Job  Thomas Thompson

The Burial of Letty Strayhorn  Elmer Kelton

Hell on the Draw     Loren D. Estleman

The Attack on the Mountain Glendon Swarthout

Fear         Bill Pronzini

Geranium House      Peggy Simson Curry

The Trouble Man      Eugene Manlove Rhodes

The Weight of Obligation   Rex Beach

Top Hand                  Luke Short

Sergeant Houck        Jack Schaefer

Manitow and Ironhand      John Jakes

The Killing at Triple Tree   Evan Hunter

Sweet Cactus Wine   Marcia Muller

Peace Officer            Brian Garfield

Wolf Moon                Ed Gorman

Gamblin’ Man           Dwight V. Swain

Candles in the Bottom of the Pool Max Evans

Stage to Lordsburg   Ernest Haycox

King of the Buckskin Breed   Les Savage, Jr.

Burn Him Out           Frank Bonham

The Shaming of Broken Horn       Bill Gulick

The Guns of William Longley       Donald Hamilton

Wine on the Desert  Max Brand

Tappan’s Burro         Zane Grey

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