Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories
 

Three-Ten to Yuma and Other Stories

by Elmore Leonard

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. The New York Times-bestselling Grand Master of suspense deftly displays the other side of his genius, with... (read more)

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read this for comparison with both film adaptations, each of which takes the title story as a starting point to develop its own plot. i put it down for a while, but when i came back i was able to really appreciate the approach leonard brought to the short form western. these are solid and complete tales, often with an edge. the more i think about it, the better i understand that these were exactly the stories i was hoping to find in this genre.

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