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The Wild Wild West 10th Anniversary Book Collection
Ride a trail of blazing guns and two-fisted action in the Wild West as L. Ron Hubbard brings American history to life. Growing up in Montana provided him with the first-hand experience that added a tone of authenticity to his western tales. Readers will feel the heat, taste the dust and hear the thunder of horses’ hooves in these tales from a master storyteller of the genre.
The 4-book collection includes 10 short stories along with illustrations from the original publications and glossaries of historical terms.
The titles and short stories in this collection
King of the Gunmen ( “The No-Gun Gunhawk”), The Magic Quirt ( “Vengeance Is Mine!” and “Stacked Bullets”), The No-Gun Man ( “Man for Breakfast”) and Shadows from Boot Hill ( “The Gunner from Gehenna” and “Gunman!”).
“With the flair of a Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey.” —True West Magazine
The 4-book collection includes 10 short stories along with illustrations from the original publications and glossaries of historical terms.
The titles and short stories in this collection
King of the Gunmen ( “The No-Gun Gunhawk”), The Magic Quirt ( “Vengeance Is Mine!” and “Stacked Bullets”), The No-Gun Man ( “Man for Breakfast”) and Shadows from Boot Hill ( “The Gunner from Gehenna” and “Gunman!”).
“With the flair of a Louis L’Amour or Zane Grey.” —True West Magazine
584 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 10, 2018
About the author
L. Ron Hubbard
2,015 books673 followersWith 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.
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July 8, 2026
While all the stories stood out, “Gunman!” was my absolute favorite. Of course it’s set in the West in a town named Deadlight, sitting on the edge of lawlessness. But at its heart, it’s the tale of a man named Brazos doing his job well, and being pushed out by more modern men—a story most of us "older people" can instantly relate to. But Brazos persists and keeps working till the last day, and ends up proving that his experience is worth that of any number of new men.
The story opens with this great line:
The pistol shot blazed red in the twilight street and a man staggered, caught at his guts, plowed his face into the August dust of Deadlight.
The opening line grabs you and the story never lets go from there.
“The No Gun Gun-Hawk” from King of the Gunmen is another story worth mentioning. Pete’s dad was a gunslinger, and knowing how that career-choice typically ends, they decided that Pete wouldn’t carry a gun. After a vigilante group mistakes him for a killer, the woman responsible for the true killer, breaks him out of jail. As they ride, we have this great paragraph:
Pete rode silently after that. From the nearby buttes he could hear the coyotes howling and moaning and yapping in dismal chorus. The black night was a velvet cloak about their shoulders and the stars sparkled overhead and, in other circumstances, Pete would have enjoyed this ride.
How does Pete overcome a greedy banker, henchmen, a gunslinger for hire, a vigilante posse, and get the girl in the end? You’ll have to read to find out!
In “The No-Gun Man” from The No-Gun Man we have a story as old as time: a peaceful man named Monte, who is great with a gun, where everyone expects him to avenge his father’s death. It’s a case where there’s no proof of the murder, but everyone knows who did it.
One of the early quotes which helps set the mood for the story is:
It was evening when they reached Superstition, some light still remaining in the sky, one star already bright, but a dull red cloud lay like a stripe of blood across the western hills. A few lamps burned in the gaming houses and the hotel, but the instant the rolling thunder of the stage came into the street, few citizens stayed inside.
Monte simply wants to sell the mine, and rescue his younger brother from the wilds of the West, to take him back to get civilized. But the bad guys keep pushing and pushing. A great line which helps explain why Monte doesn’t fight back is:
He also knew that those who deal in violence inevitably catch violence as though they spread a disease which bit back, a disease which bred more than death, making men live with racked and twisted souls and hate-filled days. He wanted none of it.
But as in all great Western stories, even good men get pushed too far. Watch out then because the bullets are sure to go flying!
The story opens with this great line:
The pistol shot blazed red in the twilight street and a man staggered, caught at his guts, plowed his face into the August dust of Deadlight.
The opening line grabs you and the story never lets go from there.
“The No Gun Gun-Hawk” from King of the Gunmen is another story worth mentioning. Pete’s dad was a gunslinger, and knowing how that career-choice typically ends, they decided that Pete wouldn’t carry a gun. After a vigilante group mistakes him for a killer, the woman responsible for the true killer, breaks him out of jail. As they ride, we have this great paragraph:
Pete rode silently after that. From the nearby buttes he could hear the coyotes howling and moaning and yapping in dismal chorus. The black night was a velvet cloak about their shoulders and the stars sparkled overhead and, in other circumstances, Pete would have enjoyed this ride.
How does Pete overcome a greedy banker, henchmen, a gunslinger for hire, a vigilante posse, and get the girl in the end? You’ll have to read to find out!
In “The No-Gun Man” from The No-Gun Man we have a story as old as time: a peaceful man named Monte, who is great with a gun, where everyone expects him to avenge his father’s death. It’s a case where there’s no proof of the murder, but everyone knows who did it.
One of the early quotes which helps set the mood for the story is:
It was evening when they reached Superstition, some light still remaining in the sky, one star already bright, but a dull red cloud lay like a stripe of blood across the western hills. A few lamps burned in the gaming houses and the hotel, but the instant the rolling thunder of the stage came into the street, few citizens stayed inside.
Monte simply wants to sell the mine, and rescue his younger brother from the wilds of the West, to take him back to get civilized. But the bad guys keep pushing and pushing. A great line which helps explain why Monte doesn’t fight back is:
He also knew that those who deal in violence inevitably catch violence as though they spread a disease which bit back, a disease which bred more than death, making men live with racked and twisted souls and hate-filled days. He wanted none of it.
But as in all great Western stories, even good men get pushed too far. Watch out then because the bullets are sure to go flying!
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