H. A. DeRosso's powerful and insightful Western fiction is gathered together in book form for the first time by Bill Pronzini in this spellbinding collection. In "Killer" a retired sheriff's code of honor drives him to a showdown with Diablo, an escaped convict. "Witch" tells the story of a Mimbreno Apache girl who has been cast out by her tribe for having saved an owl and who is saved by a young cow-hand on the run for killing a rancher's son in a cattle war. In "Endless Trail", an aging Alaska town-tamer longs to settle down to a peaceful married life, but first he has to contend with his own demons.