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The Shootist is John Bernard Books, a gunfighter in the turn of the twentieth-century who must face the best Shootist of: Demise. Many guys would end their days during sex or get their very own lives, but a gunfighter includes a third alternative, one which Publications chooses to workout. He might select their own executioner.As word spreads the well-known murderer has terminal cancer, a variety of individual birds collects to banquet on the corpse—among them a gambler, a rustler, a clergyman, an undertaker, a classic love, a writer, actually an admiring teen-ager. Below may be the last brave work in Books’s own legend.This vintage, Encourage Award–winning book was selected from the Western Writers of America as you of the greatest western books ever created and was the inspiration for John Wayne’s last good starring role in the acclaimed 1976 film version.