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Elmore Leonard’s short story “Three-Ten to Yuma” follows a western marshal who must safely escort his prisoner from Contention, Arizona, to the jail at Yuma
. The story originally appeared in Dime Western Magazine in 1953 and is also in the anthology Elmore Leonard: Westerns. The story is a classic example of the gritty and terse style Leonard employs in his stories about the American West. “Three-Ten to Yuma” was twice adapted in films as 3:10 to Yuma: in 2007 starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale, as well as an underappreciated 1957 version starring Van Heflin and Glenn Ford.Read the full story summary, an in-depth character analysis of Paul Scallen, and descriptions of the main ideas in "Three-Ten to Yuma."
