One Man. One Gun. One Law. It's an American icon: the Western shootist, living by skill, courage and a willingness to spit in death's eye. Now, the greatest names in Western literature turn this mythical character upside down, inside out and every way but loose. . . In The Trouble with Dude, award-winning author Johnny Boggs saddles a once-famous lawman with some high-paying New York dudes in search of Western thrills who get more than they bargained for; in. Uncle Jeff and the Gunfighter Western master storyteller Elmer Kelton chronicles a quarrel between a hardscrabble Texas rancher and a killer for hire–with results that stun a town. . . William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone offer Inferno: A Last Gunfighter Story featuring series hero Frank Morgan. From a pistol-packing woman to a freed slave heading into a Nebraska winter and an education in gun fighting, The Law Of The Gun is about journeys, vendettas, stand-offs, and legends that end–or sometimes just begin–with the roar of a gun. . .
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Martin H. Greenberg. Law of the Gun
LAW OF THE GUN. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Russell Davis
Contents
Introduction. Russell Davis
The Trouble with Dudes. Johnny D. Boggs
Uncle Jeff and the Gunfighter. Elmer Kelton
The Devil Doesn’t Sleep. Deborah Morgan
Destiny’s Gun. Jory Sherman
As Good as the Bad. Ken Hodgson
Inferno. William W. Johnstone with J. A. Johnstone
Waiting for Mr. Griffith. Tom Carpenter
The First Ride of Monday Happenstance. Russell Davis
Ricochet. Don Coldsmith
Bounty Hunter. John Duncklee
The Wanted Man. Rita Cleary
Dead Man Riding to Tombstone. Andrew J. Fenady
Hap. John D. Nesbitt
Gunfighter’s Lament. Ellen Recknor
Shootout at White Pass. John Jakes
The Long High Noon. Loren D. Estleman
The Two-bit Kill. C. Courtney Joyner
About the Editors
About the Authors
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He had carried the Colt since the War of the Rebellion, an old cap-and-ball .44 that he had eventually converted to take brass cartridges. When he reached the well, he pulled the revolver, blew on the cylinder, eased back the hammer, and looked around him. Abraham crouched behind the rocks, Colt automatic in a sweaty hand. Seth Thomas knelt behind the corner post of the corral, the .30-30 aimed at the shack’s roof. Up on the hill, sunlight reflected off Jason C. Hughes’s Mauser, and Garrett smiled.
This might work, he thought, and won’t there be some stories told at the bunkhouse this winter. Lin Garrett brings in a band of rustlers with nothing but a bunch of dudes riding for him. He fired a round into the air, then yelled, “I’m a federal marshal, and I got a posse surrounding you!” With a nod, he listened to the gunfire, keeping his eyes on Abraham, making sure the fool kid didn’t accidentally shoot him again, and when the echoes died down, as Abraham slid another clip into the Colt, Garrett thought about the lie he had just told. Well, he had been a federal deputy some years back, and he did have something of a posse.
