In the lead story, Cowboy Clint Hamilton laments that the town is “getting more like a big city every day†as the traditional gambling joints of earlier times give way to the gaudy casinos that will soon become modern glitz.
Sobering experiences from his days as a reporter give Laxalt an insight into murderers and prison life and lethal gas chambers. In a chilling short story, “The Snake Pen,†we find the seed of Robert Laxalt’s celebrated novel, A Man In the Wheatfield.
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