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This second volume of How the West Was Read, features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio and delivers more of the best of contemporary Western writing.

How the West was Read features eight original Western stories written specifically for audio. This collection is guaranteed to rope in fans of the Western genre. Featuring: "The Alchemist" by Loren D. Estleman, "Backtrack" by Ed Gorman, "Bareknuckler" by Fred Mean, "The Wish Book" by James Reasoner, "Mrs. Crawford's Odyssey" by Deborah Morgan, "Between the Mountains and the Sky" by L. J. Washburn, "Red Feather's Daughter" by W. W. Lee, and "A Tall Man Hangs from a Sort Rope" by Robert J. Randisi.

The Western world’s finest criminal investigator is on the case and is soon pursuing his quarry across Germany. But the hunter will become the hunted - and Desert Fire will soar to its spectacular climax.

One crazy morning in the deadest place on earth, the local bum shows up with a gangly underfed horse and challenges all comers to a race! Only an old drunk will bet on him. What could she know?

He pulled a second blade from his boot and sent it flashing after the first. Knife-fighter Abner Galvan must save a desperate woman from a depraved army general. One mistake and there'll be eight bullets in his chest, firing squads never miss.

At West Point they told you how to set security guards, load a wagon, and feed your men. But they didn't tell you how to convince troopers with 20 years' service on their sleeves that you knew more about soldiering than they did. The ambulance drivers are waiting the order to move out, and Lieutenant Thatcher is about to find how much he does know.

Having been away from Yellow Creek for eight years, Jimmy Geary was happy to see the town again. But there are three men who aren't happy to see Jimmy Geary return, and they conspire to make his stay this time very short.

Billy the Kid was hiding at the Maxwell Ranch at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when Pete Maxwell, concerned by the attentions being paid to Billy by his sister Paulita, got a message to Pat Garrett who's hunting Billy. Garrett learns that not only gunfighters were loyal to the Kid.

Larry Kehoe had been sent to prison for having killed a man with his gun. Now he has been released and is determined never to use a gun again for any purpose. What he hasn't learned is that sometimes in order to have peace, using a gun becomes necessary.

“Sometimes,” the legendary outlaw Belle Starr reflects, “you got to use your brains. Sometimes you got to go for the dream and never mind what anybody thinks or says. Life's pretty short. If I don't break my neck on a green horse, or get hanged, or shot, I'll sit on my porch when I'm old and remember the good times, all of 'em, and how every once in a while, I found glory.”

The drought is killing everything. There is a way to save the herds but half will die, maybe some ranchers too. But, are they desperate enough?

Julia's daddy was the judge in town. He used to be impartial, but recently it seemed that he had changed. What cost to the town folks would there be?

Tom Buckner returns to the town of Luna, only to realize that Susan Todd, the woman he loves, is not the puzzle he thought - that he's the puzzle. Before, he didn't care what happened to himself. Now he does, and it's too late.

She ran her husband off the ranch; put the kids to work - now Addie needs more cattle. She can't afford them, but there's another way.

The trains don't stop anymore in Lick Log Station, as once they did. It was on one of those trains that Phin Montana first came to Lick Log so many years ago. Young Glory's mother was only 19 then, the day she first met Phin Montana, and it seems to Glory now that her mother has never been alive since the day Phin Montana left, the same way he had come.

When two men riding on horseback meet on a trail in the mountains, it proves to be so narrow that neither man's horse can be turned around, or aside, or backwards. So the two now have no choice but to determine who is to be pushed off the trail to certain death.

He took one step forward and smashed Ramsey to his knees. A dark train roars over a rain-soaked bridge while two men fight to the death in the rocking, rattling caboose. Mexican treasure and a kill-crazy gang wait for the winner.

Jeremy Dice leaves New York City for the Far West. His career as a tailor had been anything but spectacular. But arriving on the frontier, he witnesses two notorious bank robbers kill each other over the division of their spoils. When the sheriff and a posse arrive, they hail Jeremy as a great hero, believing he killed both men. And then there is the hefty cash reward.

We want them all run out...gamblers, rustlers, gunslingers...every mother's son of them. They hired a legend to clean up their town - but he's old now. Can the Marshall still handle it - or is he headed for Boot Hill?

She's wild, beautiful, and he's got to have her, so Arizona college boy John Brecken cooks up one hairy plan. It might work - but dangerous outsiders are watching now, ready to step in. Things are getting far too serious.