Boot Hill: An Anthology of the West

A collection of first-rate stories from the biggest stars of the Western genreThey died with their boots on. So goes the old clich that sums up the untimely demise of many a man in the wilder towns of the Old Westand 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 tell the stories f Boot Hillfrom 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 Vaughn, Richard 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.Randisi, Robert J. is the author of 'Boot Hill: An Anthology of the West' with ISBN 9780765300812 and ISBN 0765300818.