Western Roundup!

# Western Roundup (Bantam Books, September 1948)

Edited by Arnold Hano, this anthology compiles nineteen Western stories, primarily reprinted from magazines and earlier collections. Featured are "Strange Return" by MacKinlay Kantor, in which Stony Horn returns to his frontier town after five years, having faked his death following a shooting; "The Doctor Keeps a Promise" by Luke Short; Max Brand's "Wine on the Desert"; and works by established authors including Bret Harte, Mark Twain, O. Henry, and Charles M. Russell. Additional stories include Ernest Haycox's "A Day in Town," Bennett Foster's "The Poisoner," Alan LeMay's "Trail Driver's Luck," and tales by Peter Dawson, H. A. DeRosso, and others. The collection emphasizes action narratives of frontier justice, gunfights, mining ventures, and cattle conflicts, balancing reprints from major publications like Collier's and The Saturday Evening Post with works from pulp magazines.