Russell Davis has edited numerous novels, short stories, and anthology titles, including Lost Trails. He is an avid supporter of western literature. As an author, he has written and sold almost twenty novels (under a variety of pseudonyms and in many genres) and over thirty-five short stories. He currently runs his own book packaging company, Morning Storm Books, a western-related blog, and works with his wife on breaking and training Arabian horses for endurance riding. When he’s not busy with all of that, he tries to keep up with his kids, coach youth football, and once in a great while, get a little shut-eye.
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Introduction copyright © 2010 Russell Davis
“The Water Indian,” copyright © 2010 Steve Hockensmith
“The Ghosts of Duster,” copyright © 2010 William W. Johnstone
“St. Elmo in Winter,” copyright © 2010 Margaret Coel
“Mr. Kennedy’s Bones,” copyright © 2010 Johnny D. Boggs
“Gunfight at Los Muretos,” copyright © 2010 Bill Brooks
“Iron Mountain,” copyright © 2010 Candy Moulton
“The Defense of Sentinel,” from War Party by Louis L’Amour, copyright © 1975 by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Used by permission of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
“Paradise Springs,” copyright © 2010 Sandy Whiting
“Silent Hill,” copyright © 2010 Larry D. Sweazy
“End of the Line,” copyright © 2010 Lori Van Pelt
“The Town That Wouldn’t Quit,” copyright © 2010 Deborah Morgan
“Now We Are Seven,” copyright © 2010 Loren D. Estleman
“Contention City, 1951,” copyright © 2010 Jeff Mariotte
“The Ghost of Two Forks,” copyright © 2010 Elmer Kelton
“Kiowa Canyon,” copyright © 2010 James A. Fischer
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
Following the death of William W. Johnstone, the Johnstone family is working with a carefully selected writer to organize and complete Mr. Johnstone’s outlines and many unfinished manuscripts to create additional novels in all of his series like The Last Gunfighter, Mountain Man, and Eagles, among others. His story in this anthology was inspired by Mr. Johnstone’s superb storytelling.
The stories in this book are works of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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