These two tense tales show Paine’s mastery of the Western and its heroes—men who not only take on trouble but ride straight over it. In “Dead Men in a Row,” Wyoming Sheriff Jim Ackroyd finds a trio of dead men beside a much traveled stage road but no tracks. They were killed with the sort of small pistol often used by women. Beautiful, reclusive Eloise Menrichson is the on

September 2008
In This Issue:
Western Books & Movies
- Unbridled Cowboy (Nonfiction)
- High Noon
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Vol. III
- The Phantom Empire
- Runaway Horse Reined in
- Amazing Girls of Arizona (Children’s Book)
- Unbridled Dreams (Fiction)
- Val Kilmer Returns
- The Training Ground (Nonfiction)
- Patterson: A Western Duo (Fiction)
- The Legacy of the Mastodon (Nonfiction)
- Horses that Buck: The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith (Nonfiction)
- Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree (Nonfiction)
- Survival Along the Continental Divide (Nonfiction)
- Black Women in Texas History (Nonfiction)
- Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers (Nonfiction)
- Wolves at Our Door (Fiction)