Life was hard in Elmore Leonard’s West. Living and dying in “Leonard’s Arizona Territory” was somewhere between Heaven and Hell. His characters traveled on the barbwire edge of right and wrong. They were always low on ammunition, water and hope—and if they managed to survive to live another day—it took just the right combination of humor and luck. Elmore “Dutch” Leonard, one of America’s most acclaimed writers of Westerns and crime fiction since the early 1950s, died at the


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