Western Roundup.

HANO, ARNOLD [EDITED BY].

Publication: Bantam Books, 1948, New York

First edition. PBO. Bantam 256. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Cover art by Cliff Young depicts a colorful gun duel between two cowboys. Nineteen stories by Luke Short, Ernest Haycox, Max Brand, Peter Dawson, James Warner Bellah, A.B. Guthrie, Alan LeMay, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Charles M. Russell, Mark Twain, and others. A collection of stories about outlaws and heroes, of stampeding cattle, of moonlit ambushes, and wide open gun duels. One of the few PBOs among the early Bantam Books. Fresh and bright copy. The last story Massacre by James Warner Bellah, was the source for the classic 1948 John Ford movie, "Fort Apache." that starred John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, Ward Bond, et al.