[Compiled by Jon Tuska][Read by Mark Bramhall and Tom Weiner]Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a ''big country needing big men and women to live in it.'' This volume presents eight of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories - history that lives forever.Mistakes Can Kill You : Johnny O'Day, once rescued by the Redlin family, may be the only one who can save Sam Redlin from gambler and saloon owner Loss Degner in a fight over a woman.The Man from Battle Flat : A potential range war between nesters and ranchers has divided the townspeople, and now Bush Leason, the big nester, has shot Shorty Grimes in the back.The Lion Hunter and the Lady : Cat Morgan is in the process of bagging a big mountain lion alive, with the help of Long John Williams, a wizard with a rope, when a lynch posse arrives and accuses Cat and Long John of horse stealing - and they intend to hang them right there.