{"product_id":"wild-west-short-stories","title":"Wild West: Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eCompiled for the first time in book form  seven-time Spur Award-winning author Elmer Keltons short story collection  Wild West.  From rodeos to rustlers  from ranch life to the outlaw trail  Elmer Keltons take on the human condition shows us life in Texas as it was back then: simpler  but harder  with danger always present. Readers will meet several unforgettable characters  including a young veteran who overcomes his PTSD to fight a fire ravaging his town  a sheriff who continues to chase bandits despite having lost his job  and a frontier housewife who refuses to let her home be held hostage by dangerous criminalseven when all seems lost. Equally fascinating are the rancher and his wife who protect their adopted son when his abusive biological father returns unexpectedly  and the two women whose argument over a prospective lover leads to a no-holds-barred rodeo barrel race.  As in all of Elmer Keltons work  readers will  once again  encounter the timeless strength of the human heart and the human spirit when everything else has gone awry. Filled with adventure and imbued with a love of the time  the people  and the place  these stories take us from the earliest days of the Wild West well into the twentieth century  each one embodying a passion for life thats as wide as Texas sky.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949209251893,"sku":"ByrdShop_1250161142","price":29.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781250161147_5d1313eb-334a-4d9d-867d-5d71370ea1d1.jpg?v=1770327065","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/wild-west-short-stories","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}