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Title: Louis' 2nd-best story collection- still good readin'!
Review: L'Amour's best story collection was 1975's WAR PARTY, but this 1980 follow-up has some great moments as well.Most of all I want to comment on the story "Bluff Creek Station," a powerful re-write of an earlier pulp story called "The Blood of Ryan." I believe this story is one of L'Amour's finest moments, right up there with FLINT, REILLY'S LUCK, THE DAYBREAKERS, and the story "The Gift of Cochise" (collected in WAR PARTY.) It is the story of a stagecoach stationmaster's last moments of life. Unforgettable. It is alone worth whatever you pay for this book-- my favorite western short story next to O.Henry's "Pimienta Pancakes."All in all, a great anthology. Buy it.
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