In the Big Country Author:John Jakes Here, for the first time in one volume, are eleven of his finest stories of the American West and the brave men and women who tamed it. — You'll meet a sheriff who faces a hardened killer in the strangest gunfight in frontier history: a resourceful woman who saves a rebel from a bitter life on the owlhoot trail; a ruthless gunman who meets hi... more »s match in a three-year-old girl;and an immigrant who battles fear and prejudice in a frightened California town. You'll also meet cardsharps, railroaders, posses, and medicine men as Jakes recaptures the humor, violence and adventure of the great American frontier.