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WesternDescribed by Bill Pronzini as a poet of the Western shadowland, DeRossos characters are usually gunslicks, bounty hunters, drifters, hard-scrabble ranchers, and outlaws who are lonely and disillusioned neither all good nor all bad. In The Bounty Hunter, Spurr is duped by scalp hunters into believing that he has killed his own son. Fifteen years later, when he learns the truth, he becomes obsessed with revenge. This and other stories by H. A. DeRosso, each of them powerful and spellbinding have been gathered for the first time by Bill Pronzini.*First Edition Western
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Looking down into the valley, Graham spotted the rider off in the distance. He moved the Appaloosa back where she would not show above the rim of the cliff and tied the horse to a mesquite. Then he lay on his belly and watched the horseman come up the valley.
Look at him, Graham told himself grimly. There he is, just below me now. I could pick him off easy. He doesn't even know I'm up here watching. He's got no idea that I'm even on the mountain. No one knows I'm here. If I picked him off, he'd only be getting what he had coming to him. I know, if he was in my boots, he wouldn't hold back. He'd grab his rifle and let me have one in the back... the way I should let him have one. And I'm of a good mind to do just that....
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Under the Burning Sun
H. A. DeRosso
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A LEISURE BOOK
April 2000
Published by special arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.
Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc. 276 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10001
If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as "unsold and destroyed" to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this "stripped book."
Copyright 1997 by Marquette General Hospital and Bill Pronzini
Further copyright information may be found at the back of this book.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Publisher, except where permitted by law.
ISBN 0-8439-4712-8
The name "Leisure Books" and the stylized "L" with design are trademarks of Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Printed in the United States of America.
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Table of Contents
Foreword
7
The Bounty Hunter
19
Vigilante
86
Long Lonesome
99
Hold-up
116
Whitewater Challenge
128
The Hired Man
139
The Last Sleep
152
Man-killer!
170
My Brother: Killer
186
Fair Game
204
The Mesteos
222
Those Bloody Bells of Hell!
235
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Foreword
H. A. DeRosso: Under the Burning Sun
Most writers of Western fiction past and present were either born and bred in one of the thirteen western states, or made that part of the country their adopted home. Henry Andrew DeRosso was among the notable exceptions. Like another prolific teller of Western tales, T. V. Olsen, DeRosso spent almost all of his relatively short life in upstate Wisconsin. The area in which he lived, in the northeast corner of the state near the Michigan border, is rich in its own pioneer history: his birthplace, Carey, and its neighboring community of Hurley in which he made his home for many years, were once rough-and-tumble iron-ore mining towns not unlike the gold, silver, and copper camps of the Far West frontier. This rural milieu, with its harsh winters and its proximity to the vast North Woods, may explain DeRosso's early interest in adventure and Western fiction and his lifelong fascination with the southwestern desert country, a wilderness and a climate exactly opposite of the one in which he lived.
Born in 1917, DeRosso aspired to be a fiction writer from a young age. He began producing Western short stories while a high-school student and persevered through a self-professed total of seventy-nine rejections before making his first professional sale to Street &
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Smith's Western Story Magazine in 1941. (That first story, "Six-Gun Saddlemates," appeared in the magazine's July 19, 1941 issue.) After graduation from Hurley High School in 1935, DeRosso attended a local community college for two years and, briefly, the schools of journalism and agriculture at the University of Wisconsin. Health problems kept him out of military service during World War II. Thus, he was able to continue writing on a daily basis and to begin piling up sales to Western Story and other pulps during this period, supplementing his income with farm work and as a mail carrier. By the end of the war he had established himself to the point where he was able to devote his full time to writing. A bachelor with modest needs, he supported himself almost entirely through sales of his fiction for the last fifteen years of his life.
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