"The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories" is a collection of sparsely written tales that Elmore Leonard wrote over a thirty year period. This is Clint Eastwood country. So all the stories are populated by the tough guy loner who appears in different guises, cowboy or Indian, small holder or bank robber, marshall or runaway/5(15). · The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that gathers together the best of Leonard's western fiction, to life. In "The Tonto Woman, " a young wife, her face tattooed by Indian kidnappers, becomes society's outcast - until an outlaw vows to set her free.4/5(28). The Tonto woman and other western stories Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Share to Facebook. Share to Reddit. The Tonto woman and other western stories by Leonard, Elmore, Publication date Topics Frontier and pioneer life, Western stories Publisher New York: Delacorte PressUser Interaction Count:
Elmore Leonard - The Kid (in The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories) I've read two stories in two days called 'The Kid', each dealing with the baffling appearance of a mute child and the question of who will take responsibility. There the similarities end. Scibona's story is devastating. Find many great new used options and get the best deals for The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories by Elmore Leonard (, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! As many readers know, Elmore Leonard started out writing westerns before turning to modern-day thrillers with Fifty-two Pickup. These excellent 19 stories may prompt a reexamination of the early novel.
THE TONTO WOMAN by Elmore 'Dutch' Leonard contains short stories that will redefine how you view 'The Old West' with plots twists and turns the likes of which any writer can envy. As a long time reader and fan of Leonard's I like to revisit the western stories from time to time to enjoy the dialogue, storyline construction, and characters that are anything but stock or easy to pigeon hole. Work Description. A collection of western stories. In The Colonel's Lady, a white woman uses feminine guile to outwit her Apache captor, in Hurrah for Capt. Early, a black cavalryman one-upmanships a white racist, while in the title story a gunman helps a humiliated woman--she was prisoner of Indians--regain her dignity. "The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories" is a collection of sparsely written tales that Elmore Leonard wrote over a thirty year period. This is Clint Eastwood country. So all the stories are populated by the tough guy loner who appears in different guises, cowboy or Indian, small holder or bank robber, marshall or runaway.
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