@article{850444,
      recid = {850444},
      author = {Leonard, Elmore, and Rafferty, Terrence, and Leonard,  Elmore, and Leonard, Elmore, and Leonard, Elmore, and  Leonard, Elmore, and Leonard, Elmore,},
      title = {Westerns /},
      pages = {781 pages ;},
      abstract = {"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard  perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved.  These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as  Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled  for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts  of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative  tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh  twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic  confrontations reveal a master at work. Whether describing  a Civil War veteran coming back to find his homestead  stolen (Last Stand at Saber River), a man raised by Apaches  treated with contempt by the white settlers who will  ultimately depend on him for their survival (Hombre), a  local constable, tricked into killing an innocent man,  fighting back against the powerful man who duped him  (Valdez Is Coming), or two convicts in a desert prison--one  African American and the other half-Apache--plotting a  near-impossible escape (Forty Lashes Less One), Leonard's  westerns are tough, suspenseful, convincing, and  beautifully spare in style."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/850444},
}