THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST Alan LeMay will forever be known as the author of the brilliant novels that became the classic films The Searchers and The Unforgiven . But his short stories are no less memorable. Beginning in the 1920s, LeMay was a frequent contributor of Western stories to magazines such as Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post . The best of these stories, unavailable for many years, are collected here. Among the selections is "The Little Kid," perhaps LeMay's most touching story, a poignant tale of a ...
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THE SPIRIT OF THE WEST Alan LeMay will forever be known as the author of the brilliant novels that became the classic films The Searchers and The Unforgiven . But his short stories are no less memorable. Beginning in the 1920s, LeMay was a frequent contributor of Western stories to magazines such as Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post . The best of these stories, unavailable for many years, are collected here. Among the selections is "The Little Kid," perhaps LeMay's most touching story, a poignant tale of a young boy who is orphaned when his father is killed on a cattle drive. Few writers could match LeMay's skill in evoking the full range of emotion in his characters--wonderful, living people who fill the pages of this collection with the heart and spirit of the Old West.
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