
A collection thirteen stories that uses the gunfight to explore motives and complex personalities and situations. Three of them were made into films, two are grounded on historical episodes, and two play out the gunfight theme against a modern backdrop. This work is useful to...

The most familiar scene in Western American lore is the gunfight: two men slowly walk toward each other, ready to test speed, accuracy, and nerve in a duel to the death. Writers of the American West have long written this scene-sometimes to the point of tired formula. From hundreds...