Big Country, Volume 2

Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a "big country needing big men and women to live in it." Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West. In West of the Tularosa, Ward McQueen, foreman forthe Tumbling K, is accused of killing a nearby rancher and he's going to need some help to prove his innocence. In Home in the Valley, Steve Mehan can still recoup the money to save five ranches back home if only he can make it from Sacramento to Seattleon horseback and beat the steamer carrying some bad news. In West Is Where the Heart Is, home is still more than two hundred miles away when Jim London comes across the burned-out wagon train with only one survivor, a five-year-old girl. He'll have to take her with him.