Celebrity readers including Country & Western singer K.T. Oslin perform some of the best American Western short stories. Mark Twain's "Jack Slade, Desperado" is the tale of a ruthless man "...whose heart and soul were steeped in the blood of offenders against his dignity." Elmer Kelton magnificently describes buffalo soldiers on a journey to the outer limits of endurance in "Desert Command." In Will Henry's "Lapwai Winter," an Indian boy witnesses his people assimilating the coming of the White Man. This collection also includes "A Man and Some Others" by Stephen Crane, "Court Day" by Luke Short, and "A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop" by Frederick Remington.