About the Editor
Jon Tuska is the author of numerous books about the American West as well as editor of several short story collections, Billy the Kid: His Life and Legend (Greenwood Press, 1994) and The Western Story: A Chronological Trea sury (University of Nebraska Press, 1995) among them. Together with his wife Vicki Piekarski, Tuska co founded Golden West Literary Agency that primarily represents authors of Western fiction and Western Americana. They edit and co publish forty titles a year in two prestigious series of new hardcover Western novels and story collections, the Five Star Westerns and the Circle V Westerns. They also coedited the Encyclopedia Of Frontier and Western Fiction (McGraw-Hill, 1983), The Max Brand Companion (Greenwood Press, 1996), The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories (Morrow, 1997), and The First Five Star Western Corral (Five Star Westerns, 2000). Tuska has also been editing an annual series of short novel collections, Stories of the Golden West, of which there are seven volumes.
Other Leisure books by Louis L’Amour:
TRAILING WEST
GRUB LINE RIDER
THE LAWLESS WEST (Anthology)
SHOWDOWN TRAIL
A MAN CALLED TRENT
THE SIXTH SHOTGUN
THE GOLDEN WEST (Anthology)
THE UNTAMED WEST (Anthology)
Copyright
A LEISURE BOOK®
January 2009
Published by special arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.
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“Big Medicine” under the byline Jim Mayo first appeared in Thrilling Western (1/48). Copyright © 1948 by Standard Magazines, Inc. Copyright not renewed.
“Trail to Pie Town” under the byline Jim Mayo first appeared in West (2/48). Copyright © 1948 by Better Publications, Inc. Copyright not renewed.
“McQueen of the Tumbling K” under the byline Jim Mayo first appeared in Thrilling Western (12/47). Copyright © 1947 by Standard Magazines, Inc. Copyright not renewed.
“Showdown on the Hogback” under the byline Jim Mayo first appeared in Giant Western (8/50). Copyright © 1950 by Best Publications, Inc. Copyright not renewed.
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