Business of Dying

Collected here are ten Western short stories by Richard S. Wheeler, the award-winning author who makes storytelling look easy.

In “Mugs Birdsong’s Crime Academy,” celebrated criminal Mugs Birdsong decides to found an academy that will instruct lawmen on the ways and means of lawlessness. “The Last Days of Dominic Prince” is the tragic tale of a cattle baron and his final conflict with the forces of...