Fifteen of the most diverse, masterful storytellers are presented in a collection fully endorsed by the most respected Western authors' organization in the country - The Western Writers of America. All of the authors presented in this anthology have won the prestigious Western writing accolade - the Spur Award - either for the pieces of short fiction that appear here or for longer works that paint a sweeping panorama of America's frontier...

Edited by Richard S. Wheeler.

Contents:

• Introduction
• The Cat King of Cochise County by Loren D. Estleman
• Too Proud to Lose by Richard Matheson
• The Attack on the Mountain by Glendon Swarthout
• Comes the Hunter by Jory Sherman
• The Face by Ed Gorman
• The Anniversary by Win Blevins
• Sue Ellen Learns to Dance by Judy Alter
• I Never Saw a Buffalo by Frank Roderus
• The Indian Summer of Nancy Redwing by Harry W. Paige
• The Big Two-Shoot Rifle by R.C. House
• Just as I Am By Joyce Gibson Roach
• Charity by Sandra Whiting
• Continuity by Elmer Kelton
• All or Nothing by Gary Svee
• The School at the Bucket of Blood by Jeanne Williams