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"Tell Sackett had fought his share of Indians and had managed to take something of value from his battles--respect for the Apaches as warriors. But that respect is lost when Apache braves kidnap Tell's nephew, forcing him to cross the border into the Sierra Madres to bring the boy back."--Back cover
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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 is that the...
3) Bannon
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Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly...
4) Chancy
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Otis Chancy faces crooked sheriffs and deadly gunmen as he learns the rules of living in the West while trying to build up his own cattle outfit.
10) Sackett's land
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This is the first half of the story of Barnabus, the patriarch of the Sackett clan, and his migration to North America in 1600. His saga begins when he discovers a purse of gold coins in the mud of Devil's Dyke in Finland. On the run from English authorities, he meets and marries Abigail Tempany, the daughter of a sea captain. Nick Bardle, the master of a merchant vessel, the Jolly Jack, is half pirate, ready to take any advantage of any activity...
11) Long ride home
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A collection of western stories about frontier life, lawmen, bank robbers, cardsharps, and gunslingers.
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In the first in this trio of Western stories by Louis L'Amour-"Black Rock"-Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary's Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all...
15) Bendigo Shafter
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"When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains, they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed." -- page 4 of cover.
16) Reilly's luck
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Abandoned at four, card sharp at eight, and now full of experiences, Val Darrant owes his life to Will Reilly, a gambling man, and when Will is shot, Val is forced to revisit his own past to discover what happened.
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Van Allen was a strong, arrogant man who rode roughshod over anything that got in his way. Brutal and uncaring with women, he suddenly found himself guilty of an ugly murder and in a panic, tried to cover it up and destroy the evidence. Tell Sackett was a part of that evidence, but he was not going to be easy to get rid of. Allen murdered Tell's wife, Angie, while he was away. When he returned, one of Allen's men shot him and left him for dead. Despite...
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Fast-shooting cowpuncher Hopalong Cassidy must think fast to save lives and see justice served when he arrives at the Circle J to deliver a fortune in bank notes to his friend, rancher Dick Jordan, and finds Jordan and his daughter Pam being held hostage by a desperate band of outlaws.
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When Tell and Orrin Sackett find a journal written by their father, Colburn Sackett, who disappeared in the Colorado mountains before the Civil War, they mount an expedition to retrace his route. He was part of a group of men searching for treasure, mined and buried by French soldiers in the 1790s. The Sacketts' arrival in New Orleans to make inquiries attracts the attention of both friends and enemies. Nativity Pettigrew, responsible for killing...
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