The "Tonto Woman" and Other Western Stories - Hardcover

Leonard, Elmore

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385323867 ISBN 13: 9780385323864

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

An anthology of nineteen short westerns originally published in "The Saturday Evening Post" and other magazines from the 1950s to the 1980s tells of heroism, brutality, and passion on the frontier

About this title

About the Author:

Elmore Leonard lives in Bloomfield Village, Michigan.

From the Inside Flap:

dden glance on a Miami night to a killer's slow burn on a Detroit street, no one mixes passion, scheming, and violence better than Elmore Leonard. But before he did it in Miami Beach or Motor City, Elmore Leonard did it on the American frontier.

The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that gathers together the best of Leonard's Western fiction. In stories that burn with passion, treachery, and heroism, the American frontier comes vividly, magnificently to life. In "The Tonto Woman," a young wife, her face tattooed by Indian kidnappers, becomes society's outcast--until an outlaw vows to set her free. . . . In "Only Good Ones," we meet a fine man turned killer in one impossible moment. . . ."Saint with a Six-Gun" pits a doomed prisoner against his young guard--in a drama of deception and compassion that leads to a shocking act of courage. . . . In "The Colonel's Lady," a brutal ambush puts a woman into t

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0385323867
• ISBN 13: 9780385323864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 345