FREE THE COMPLETE WESTERN STORIES OF ELMORE LEONARD PDF Elmore Leonard | 546 pages | 08 May 2007 | Harper Paperbacks | 9780061242922 | English | New York, NY, United States The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard by Elmore Leonard, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard a better The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard experience, please upgrade now. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser. NOOK Book. Trust was rare and precious in the wide-open towns that sprung up like weeds on America's frontier—with hustlers and hucksters arriving in droves by horse, coach, wagon, and rail, and gunmen working both sides of the law, all too eager to end a man's life with a well-placed bullet. Home 1 Books 2. Read an excerpt of this book! Add to Wishlist. Sign in to Purchase Instantly. Members save with free shipping everyday! See details. Product Details About the Author. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. He died in Hometown: Bloomfield Village, Michigan. Date of Birth: October 11, Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana. Education: B. Related Searches. View Product. The Bounty Hunters. David Flynn is a legend in the The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard Arizona Territory—a U. Tracking an elusive Indian with a price on his head City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. The action never stops, the language sings The action never stops, the language sings and stings. Documentary filmmaker Dara Barr is at the top of her game and looking for bigger Documentary filmmaker Dara Barr is at the top of her game and looking for bigger challenges. Fire in the Hole. Top-notch work from one of our most gifted Top-notch work from one of our most gifted and consistently entertaining writers. Nine stories with booze and shotguns and lowlifes…and lots of scenes that ought to be Freaky Deaky. Get Shorty. Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard. A higher caliber of entertainment. HarperCollins Publishers. Table of Contents: The complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard. On a night in Aprilthe lean Western movie star Randolph Scott attended the Detroit premiere The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard his new film, The Tall Tbased on a story by the bespectacled, crew-cutted young advertising man who stood beside him for a picture. While the top of his desk was given over to paperwork for the Chevrolet account, inside that drawer was a shimmery Apacheria of his imagination: parched southwestern landscapes thinly peopled with vaqueros or stagecoach drivers, raiding parties and cavalry units, dancehall girls and faro dealers, weary lawmen and bickering outlaws. Even if cowboy literature, with its creaking leather and ringing spurs, is not your usual thing, these novels and stories herald the crime-writer he became. Crooks are crooks; mainly the landscape changed. Leonard was originally no more a man The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard the West than was the Ohio-born dentist Zane Grey. While a kid in Detroit, Westerns enthralled him as they did most people in the s and 40s. When he grew interested in writing during college Western fiction seemed a promising genre he could work in part-time. Unlike The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard writers then selling Western tales to pulps, though, Leonard insisted on accuracy, and kept a ledger of his research over the years, later crediting his longtime subscription to Arizona Highways magazine for many of his authentic descriptions. All had to be genuine: the guns, Apache terms and clothing; the frontier knives, card games, liquor, and especially the horses. For readers of his later books, much should be familiar in these Western entertainments, with the respectful rivals on opposite sides of the law, failed heists and robbers whose loyalty proves weak on the run. His outlaws have little honor, but they do accumulate regrets. Leonard likes outsiders, people brushed with otherness, or in the case of returned captives, double outsiders. In the novel Hombrea recently liberated young settler woman shares the same tense stagecoach with other Anglo passengers and a Mexican-born man dressed like a Chiricahua. He liked that Apaches also used Spanish words, he said in an interview. This gave him a three-sided conflict more interesting as a storyteller than the two-way fight on the Plains. It begins:. It was a Sharps. After the boy, Will Gordon, fells and The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard several dozen bison assisted by an alcoholic old man, the hides The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard stolen by the same passing crew that had sent his father to his death. Corresponding with one of his writing heroes, the great sportswriter and novelist W. Heinz, in the spring of Leonard sent along one of his recent Western novels. You must be able to hear and see each character as he talks. When I asked advice, this man from the Florence Enterprise said begin at the beginning, the day the coach departed from Sweetmary with everybody aboard. Which sounded fine until I got to doing it. Soon the character the whites call John Russell appears, his face shadowed beneath a beaten straight brim hat:. Except he had lived with them—the wild free ones up in the mountains and the wild caught ones up at San Carlos—about half his life and that made the difference. From his surly lack of talking, you sense that Russell is a man of action, and he does not disappoint. In true Leonard fashion, something happens that causes the white stagecoach passengers to go from kicking him out for his Apache appearance to begging him to defend them with his set of deadly skills. Strangely, the very popularity of free Western TV shows there were 26 in alone slowly killed the Western movie and magazine market. Leonard wrote stories and novels until the early s, then worked doing freelance copywriting and educational films until Hombre was bought and made into a movie with Paul Newman in Leonard then wrote his first non-western novel, The Big Bouncereturning now and again to his first love. InLeonard expanded a story into the The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard revenge novel Valdez is Coming. Valdez is pushed too far, as they say, and turns out to have a past guiding for General Crooke chasing Geronimo. After his long fuse is burned down, he wages a righteous one-man campaign around the canyon. When his old friend the The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard Madame sees Valdez preparing for battle by doctoring his shotgun shells with tallow, she realizes the transformation is underway from genial constable back into warrior. They had dug coal together as young men and then lost touch over the years. The rivals plot one last, glorious time: Both of them sons of local criminals who grew up among miners and moonshiners, Crowder seeks to continue in the family tradition. So what keeps Raylan Givens from crossing to the Crowder side of life? He does not live in the historical West, yet Givens wears a Stetson on the job and challenges criminals to old school duels in the street. At one point, he gives a drug boss 24 hours to leave the county. For Givens, belief in himself as a kind of frontier figure allows him to do his very dangerous job. For Leonard, like his creation Raylan Givens, the West was serious business, a habit of mind, no matter where or when you were born. Advertisers: Contact Us. Privacy Policy. Leonard insisted on accuracy, and kept a ledger of his research over the years, later crediting his longtime subscription to Arizona Highways magazine for many of his authentic descriptions. Article continues after advertisement. He is currently working on a book about the cowboy detective Charlie Siringo and the American West. Next Article Broken Places. October 21, Find CrimeReads on Facebook. Read More. Twitter My Tweets. Table of Contents: The complete western stories of Elmore Leonard Elmore wrote nine westerns between and One in the Sixties, Hombre. Three in the Seventies Valdez Is Coming? The Bounty Hunters? The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard the Arizona Department Adjutant has selected two men to hunt him down. One—Dave Flynn—knows war, the land, and the nature of his The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard. The other is a kid lieutenant named Bowers. The Law at Randado? Escape from Five Shadows? No one breaks out of the brutal convict labor camp at Five Shadows—but Corey Bowen is ready to die trying. They framed him to put him in there, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard beat him bloody and nearly dead after his last escape attempt. Last Stand at Saber River? A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. It seems this war is not yet over for Paul Cable. John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Valdez Is Coming? They laughed at Roberto Valdez and then ignored him.