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Tin Star

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This is a great compilation of western stories that stir and catch your attention. Robert J. Randisi has put together a wonderful volume that I can go back to anytime and re-read with pleasure the many authors who have used their different talents and imaginations on paper. For instance, one of my favorite (although it is hard to chose a favorite in this book) is "Cast-Iron Star" where a young man rides into town, asks, or rather insists, that he get the job of County Marshal, and vows to bring a gang to an end. He doesn't want a tin star, because interspersed into this story is little bylines about how his dad had shot a man right through a tin star. This story has a marvelous twist and I don't want to reveal it, so that all might enjoy it, but I will say that you will be thrilled by this book. Many of the other short stories are also great, such as "Fugitive Book", "Woolies", "Law West of Lonetree", "Maintaine Le Droit", about a Mountie, "Anna and the Players", etc. Another thing about this book is that in "Woolies" and "Law West of Lonetree", the authors use black cowboys as their central theme, and I think that is is great to see this more and more in westerns coming out now. But even more than that, I like how Robert Randisi introduces the authors and I am amazed about how few of them I was aware of. But now I am and will be on the lookout for titles by these individual authors who contributed to this great book. You will thoroughly enjoy it!

This is the kind of book in which you can experience new to you western authors, without buying and reading an entire novel by each author. And in this book you will meet some of the best.

the story woolies was really cool. I liked all the stories but that one was particuliarly good. I would suggest this book to anyone who enjoys western stories.