In the Big Country: The Best Western Stories of John Jakes
Best-selling author ofThe Kent Family  Chroniclesand  the three-volume Civil War  epicNorth And South, John  Jakes is  one of America's favorite historical  novelists. But Jakes is also a  master of Frontier fiction.  Here, for the first time in one volume,  are eleven  of his finest stories of the American West and the  brave  men and women who tamed it. You'll meet a  sheriff who faces a hardened  killer in the strangest  gunfight in frontier history; a resourceful  woman  who saves a rebel from a bitter life on the owl  hoot trail; a  ruthless gunman who meets his match  in a three-year-old-girl; and a  immigrant who  battles fear and prejudice in a frightened California   town. You'll also meet card sharks, railroaders,  posses, and medicine  men as Jakes recaptures the  humor, violence, and adventure of the  great American  frontier. Includes the brand-new, never   before-published story,Carolina Warpath,  and an essay,The  Western; andHow We Got It.