Louis L'Amour
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Pub. Date
2007
Description
In “Law of the Desert,” Shad Marone is on the run. He shot a man in a fair fight; but the sheriff is his bitter enemy, and Shad knows he'll never get a fair trial. In “Desert Death Song,” Nat Bodine is given a choice: to die by hanging or take his chances in the desert. But when a good woman believes in a man, he finds the will to survive.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Louis L’Amour said 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.” The two stories in this collection provide a good sample of the kinds of people he had in mind. “Ride, You Tonto Raiders” “War Party” A boy on the brink of manhood, a resourceful frontier woman who has beauty as well as fortitude, and a strong male character who is single and therefore marriageable...
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
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.” Here are three more of his fine short stories about the West. -- Home in the Valley Steve Mehan had accomplished what many had believed to be impossible. He had taken cattle from the home range in Nevada to California in the dead of winter. Not only that, he had been successful in selling them. Now the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Here are two exciting adventures from the pen of the Louis L'Amour. In “Trap of Gold, Wetherton has been three months out of town when he finds his first color, in a crumbling granite upthrust with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the rocks are unstable, and taking out the quartz might just bring the whole thing tumbling down. In “Trail to Pie Town,” Dusty Barron rode his stallion at full gallop out of...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
En un breve instante, una caída borró su memoria. Ahora, de lo único que estaba seguro era de que alguien lo quería muerto… y que era mejor que averiguara por qué. Pero parecía que en cada sitio al que llegaba había aún más interrogantes… o más personas demasiado dispuestas a ocultar la verdad detrás de una cortina de humo compuesta de mentiras. Tenía únicamente el nombre que le habían dicho que era el suyo, su misteriosa destreza...
Author
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Pub. Date
2008
Description
En Las madrugadores, Para pelear con Orrin Sackett tenías que provocarle, pero su hermano Tyrel era el extremo opuesto. Tye nació para buscarse pleitos, y la noche que se interpuso entre su hermano y una bala cambió para siempre el rumbo de sus vidas. Ahora el sendero les llevaba hacia el oeste, a Santa Fe, una ciudad fronteriza al borde de la violencia donde había que implantar la justicia antes de establecerse en ese territorio sin...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Cuando Gaylord Riley se alejó de la banda de Coburn, llevaba dinero y un sueño. Trabajó duro y construyó una cabaña, reunió una manada de reses y se enamoró de Marie Shattuck. 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 se sorprende cuando sus viejos amigos...
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Description
Two men in the isolated town of Tucker want the XY ranch—Jim Walker and the ruthless Wing Cary—and one of them wants it badly enough to kill for it.
The Black Rock Coffin Makers is a tale of suspense and danger, with chases, shootouts, double-crosses and posses, all for possession of the XY ranch.
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Description
The Sackett Brothers didn't know what kind of trouble had Cousin Logan treed up yonder but he needed beef cattle badly. So with Tell Sackett ramrodding, Tyrel, Orrin and Cap Rountree ride north to the wild country--pushing 1100 head of fat steers acros the wide Dakota plains to ward the mountains of far western Canada.
18) Showdown (CD)
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. At a Fort where they stock up on supplies, they meet Morton Harper and he persuades them to take an "easier" trail that will allow them to avoid Indian attacks and takes them into a vast ranching domain.