Louis L'Amour
No onetells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the humanside of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law andorder. Collected here are seven stories penned by America's favorite Westernauthor.
The Black Rock Coffin Makers
Two menin the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch: Jim Walker and the ruthlessWing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for
...A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor in a moment of...
Pero al enfrentar falsas acusaciones de robo de ganado y asesinato, Riley se v e obligado a defender su nuevo estilo de vida de ciudadano respetuoso de la ley. Superado en número, y de cara a un escuadrón de linchamiento, Riley...
"A strong case may be made that L'Amour was the most popular American writer of the 20th century."—The Wall Street Journal
Mistakes Can Kill You
As a boy, Johnny O'Day was saved from death when a couple took him into their home—yet he always harbored jealous resentment toward their biological...
A collection of two stories by beloved Western writer Louis L'Amour
In "The Sixth Shotgun," Leo Carver has been sentenced to hang for holding up a stage, killing the driver and the guard, and stealing the gold they were transporting. He is convicted despite his protests of innocence, but questions soon arise over what really happened.
"The Rider of the Ruby Hills" is the story of Ross Haney, who rides into Ruby Hills country hoping to settle
...19) Trailing West
No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of westward expansion—the good and the bad—before the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by America's favorite Western author.
"Trap of Gold"
Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color in a crumbling upthrust granite wall with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold. The problem
...No one describes the adventures of the lone cowboy better than Louis L'Amour, who portrays the human side of the Old West before the days of law and order. Here is one of Louis L'Amour's short stories, with text restored according to the state of its initial publication.
In "The Lion Hunter and the Lady," the lion hunter is called Cat Morgan because of his reputation for being able to bag mountain lions alive to sell them to circuses and zoos.
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