THE AMERICAN FRONTIER LIVES ON The third in a series of American Western short stories compiled by Tuska, and performed by celebrity readers including Country & Western star K. T. Oslin. William Windom, David Ackroyd and William Atherton. From Mark Twain's Jack Slade. Desperado, a ruthless man ". . . whose heart and soul were steeped in the blood of offenders against his dignity" and Elmer Kelton's buffalo soldiers on journey to the outer limits of endurance in Desert Command, to an Indian boy who witnesses his people assimilate the coming of the White Man in Lapwai Winter, this collection depicts every colorful aspect of the West that was.