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  Freaky Deaky

  Other Stories

  Touch

  Three-Ten to Yuma and

  Bandits

  Other Stories

  Glitz

  Blood Money and Other

  LaBrava

  Stories

  Stick

  Moment of Vengeance and Cat Chaser

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  Split Images

  The Complete Western

  City Primeval

  Stories of Elmore

  Gold Coast

  Leonard

  Gunsights

  Mr. Paradise

  The Switch

  When the Women Come

  The Hunted

  Out to Dance

  Unknown Man No. 89

  Tishomingo Blues

  Swag

  Pagan Babies

  Fifty-two Pickup

  Be Cool

  Mr. Majestyk

  The Tonto Woman &

  Forty Lashes Less One

  Other Western Stories

  Valdez Is Coming

  Cuba Libre

  The Moonshine War

  Out of Sight

  The Big Bounce

  Riding the Rap

  Hombre

  Pronto

  Last Stand at Saber River

  Rum Punch

  Escape from Five Shadows

  Maximum Bob

  The Law at Randado

  Get Shorty

  The Bounty Hunters

  Killshot

  Credits

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  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and

  dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to

  be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or

  persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  TRAIL OF THE APACHE. Copyright © 2007 by Elmore Leonard,

  Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American

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  Document Outline

  Cover Image

  Title Page

  Contents Map

  Chapter One: Trail of the Apache

  Chapter Two: You Never See Apaches...

  Chapter Three: The Colonel�s Lady

  Chapter Four: The Rustlers

  Chapter Five: The Big Hunt

  Chapter Six: The Boy Who Smiled

  Chapter Seven: Only Good Ones

  About the Author

  Praise

  Books by Elmore Leonard

  Credits

  Copyright Notice

  About the Publisher