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 $100 each. The rest is history.

There are 11 stories here -enjoy the work of this master.

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