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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...
2) 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.
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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...
9) 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...
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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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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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Classic Western Adventure From America's Favorite StorytellerLouis L'AmourLouis L'Amour brings you the Wild West as you've never heard it before. This classic story on audiocassette, complete with a full cast, stirring music, and authentic sound effects, sweeps you back to the glory days of the late 1800s. Full of brass and fire, this exclusive production of The Strong Shall Live brings to life one of L'Amour's most unforgettable tales. The Strong...
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"Ross Hardy had made his decision. He sat in the middle of all he owned, a splendid Appaloosa gelding, a fine California saddle, a .44 Winchester rifle, and two walnut-stocked Colt .44 pistols. These were his all. It was a life that had left him rich in experience but poor in goods of the world. The experience was the hard-fisted experience of cold winters, dry ranges, and the dusty bitterness of cattle drives. He had fought Comanches and rustlers,...
15) Tucker
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A seventeen-year-old boy trails three men who have taken his father's money.
18) Matagorda
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After serving in the Civil War and fighting Indians on the frontier, Tap Duvarney finds he has bought a partnership in a feud as well as in a cattle outfit.
20) Crossfire trail
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Rafe Caradec--gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune--was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but his word was good. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle, Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyomin, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the most ruthless men...
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