The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories – This raw, hard-bitten collection gathers together the best of Elmore Leonard’s Western fiction.  In stories that burn with passion, treachery, and heroism, the American frontier comes vividly, magnificently to life.  In “Only Good Ones,” we meet a fine man turned killer in one impossible moment .  .  .  “Saint with a Six-Gun” pits a doomed prisoner against his young guard–in a drama of deception and compassion that leads to a shocking act of courage .  .  .  and in “The Colonel’s Lady,” a brutal ambush puts a woman into the hands of a vicious renegade–while a tracker attempts a rescue that cannot come in time.
