Gary Telles

Superstition, mystery and murder also have a niche in western writing with this story by ...

Brad Kelly planned for weeks, set everything carefully in place - then he hit the Pioneer...

Zane Grey shows his knowledge of Indian tribes and their history and the peon system of M...

An unplanned murder during a bank robbery has another sheriff on the trail of those on th...

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fir...

Something tan and cylindrical struck the roof and rolled off. The men inside didn't wait ...

Werewolf by Max Brand in Western Story Magazine (12/18/26) involves just such an inward j...

A traveling prospector wandering around California looking for gold spends a few peaceful...

The news is bad. The stage driver's wife who is expecting a child has taken a serious fal...

Tom Dallas has changed his way of living. All the shootings in which he was involved were...

About the fascinating Mrs. King, young Rosalia Dures and the strong, silent Tom Folliard....

Matt North's secret plan to force an entire range to reverse its decision to raise sheep....

Matt Hurst seeks justice when a sheriff's posse kills his father and brothers.

Two young men in the gold fields of California spend a last evening together as one of th...

Julia's daddy was the judge in town. He used to be fair, but recently it seemed that had ...

A quick-draw tale from the wild west. T. T. Flynn has long been popular with readers as a...

Honest presentation is only one characteristic of Frazee's well-crafted tales. He tells a...

Original story published in Lariat story magazine - July 1947

Caleb Doorn is better known by his Blackfoot name, Many Coups. Doorn is scouting for the ...

BROTHER SHOTGUN is about an old buffalo hunter whose return to the plains after the Civil...

Haseloff's characters embody the fundamental values--honor, duty, courage, and family--th...

A classic tale that features all the beloved subjects and icons - stagecoaches, gold rush...

A Short Story Gem in a Western Setting - The search of a man for beauty, and how and wher...

In thirty years of prospecting, old Jim had never discovered Amber's Mirage--a shining cl...

Shaw's forte was her ability to create interesting casts of characters through whom and b...

Wayne D. Overholser, winner of three Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America, wea...

When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he ...

Bill Ash, an escaped convict returns to find his father murdered.

A cruel, hated man collects a fortune, then disappears in the desert. The Texas Rangers t...

Western Jane Candia Coleman is a natural storyteller whose characters come from the lands...

Cannibalism In The Cars is a short story by Mark Twain which satires the political system...

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a bri...

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humori...

Winner of Publisher’s Weekly ‘Listen Up’ Award. Year after year, in spi...

Daniel Zalewski is the features director of The New Yorker. He edits the work of many sta...

"The Only Blasphemy" is an essay from mountaineer legend John Long chronicling his solo a...

In "The Green Arch," mountaineer and author John Long offers vivid descriptions of ascend...

Journalist Frederic Dannen reports on the questionable close relationship between a mobst...

Published in Rock and Ice Magazine in 1986, this essay, co-written by John Long and Dwigh...

Tim Cahill's adventures typically include equal parts farce and discovery. "Cahill Among ...

“The Hermit’s Story,” a short story by Rick Bass, brings readers to a r...

Whitney Balliett's magnificent essay on the Great Hurricane of 1938 appeared in The New Y...