# The Complete Western Stories

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- Book: [The Complete Western Stories](https://www.bookquiver.com/elmore-leonard/the-complete-western-stories) ([The Complete Western Stories.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elmore-leonard/the-complete-western-stories.md))
- Authors: [Elmore Leonard](https://www.bookquiver.com/elmore-leonard)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-367-4
- Published: 2012-02-16
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A bull's-eye of a short fiction collection that spans the master's career. In 1950, fresh out of college and keen to make his name as a writer, Elmore Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull - Leonard loved movies set in the West. As he researched deeper into settings, Arizona in the 1880s captured his imagination: the Spanish influence, the stand-offs and shoot-outs between Apache Indians and the US cavalry. This is a fantastic collection of over five decades' worth of stories.