Diablo Smith — Phil Dunlap

PHIL DUNLAP has developed a reputation as one of the best authors writing westerns today. Read these tales from the Old West, and you'll see why. Dunlap knows the geography, the language, and the people â€"and he knows how to make them come alive. In the title story, the taciturn half-Arapaho tracker Diablo Smith is hired by a self-important rancher to find his young wife. A simple enough task, but it keeps getting more complicated the more Diablo investigates. Followed by five more exciting tales…