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This Western, set on the Florida frontier, crackles with blazing action, authentic historical details--and real bad guys who'd shoot you without blinking--offering a rich and flavorful sense of place in Florida's frontier days. Part of the Craker Western series, which includes Trail from St. Augustine. Piers Anthony calls it, a combination that works. (Pineapple Press, Inc.)

Steinbeck tells the classic story of three days in the lives of two migrant workers, Lennie Small and George Milton. Lennie, a simple-minded giant who doesn't know his own strength, wants only to settle down with his friend on a small farm where he will be allowed to feed the animals. When he inadvertently kills first a puppy, then a woman--the wife of the brutal ranch owner where Lennie and George find work--George kills him, in a humane act of love, before the unfortunate Lennie is hounded to his death. Steinbeck's sympathy for the plight of the downtrodden--and especially for exploited migrant workers like Lennie and George--is powerfully expressed in this novel.

Though primarily known as a novelist, L'Amour wrote hundreds of short stories. This volume collects 35 of his Western stories, the genre for which he has received the most notice.