Western Collection 1 is a collection of six Western Fiction short stories by seasoned author Kit Prate. They include: Miss Annie; Widow; Kill Crazy; Sharpshooter; The Redemption of Cade Beauchard; and Feliz Navidad. MISS ANNIE - A pretty school teacher, the benefactress of the town, climbs on a train every summer to go back East when school is over. Two suitors proposed this year, but Miss Annie left anyway. The love-lorn men are distracted from their misery a bit when they must track down a bank robber. In the process, will they discover a secret Miss Annie has been hiding? WIDOW - A grief stricken woman walks the streets of town among the soldiers' widows, dark cloak a barrier to prying eyes. An Indian who massacred many of the "Blue Coats" is to be hanged today. What secret does the widow hide beneath her cloak? KILL CRAZY - A troubled teenage boy, Chris, decides he hates his father. Ethan, Sheriff of the town, must bring in a killer, even if it means leaving his angry son at the mercy of a nineteen-year-old troublemaker and the local parson. Then a stone-faced, old man rides into town just before Ethan returns. What does he have to do with the killer? Who will live? And who will die? SHARPSHOOTER - Clete Benteen was a kid one minute and a man the next. The son of a sharpshooter, he grew up when his pa was brought home across the back of a horse, back-shot. Making a place for himself among hard cowboys, Clete must use all the skill he has to provide for his family and to find his Pa's killer. But is he tough enough to survive? THE REDEMPTION OF CADE BEAUCHARD - Beaten and left to die, young Cade Beauchard is discovered by Marshal Levi Macklin as he trails a gang of bank robbing killers. Hauled back to jail, is Cade destined to face a judge with the others? Levi Macklin sees something deep within the sass-mouthed, troubled fifteen-year-old that reminds him of the son he lost. Can he save him from the hangman's noose? Would he be doing the world a favor, or sparing