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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...
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Marshal Will Carston of Twin Rifles has lived by the tough ideals of the Texas Rangers, but when it comes to plain old-fashioned foolishness -- well, there's little he can do to stop his son from that. Wash Carston has just turned over his and his brother's life savings to a smooth-talking banker, and it's already too late. The money and the con man are gone.
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When Harry French left home he was just another kid looking to make his way. But when he comes back four years later, things are different. He's different. Or at least the town thinks so. Now nobody looks him in the eye. He isn't just Harry anymore, he's the Shifter, a gunfighter who brings trouble with him wherever he goes. And as hard as Harry tries, he finds that a reputation is a lot harder to put down than a gun.
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In the early 1900s, Richard Gale agrees to help George Thorne, an old college friend, get his girlfriend Mercedes, a Spanish aristocrat, to safety, away from the Mexican bandit who murdered her father. Gale gets to the Belding Ranch, where he becomes a desert ranger and falls in love with Belding's daughter, Nell. But security is only temporary: Thorne is kidnapped by the Mexican bandit and his renegades who then take him to Belding's ranch, demanding...
12) Texas empire
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Indian fighter-turned-trailblazer and cattleman Jack Gordon risks it all for a spread of Texas land in the uncharted Llano Estacado, and when he came to a breathtaking canyon called Palo Duro, he makes an extraordinary stand--with a fast gun and a vision that will not die.
13) The Savage Curse
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At long last John Savage has cornered Ollie Hobart-the man who murdered his family. But will the price of his vengeance be too high?
17) Blood valley
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Shortly after the man known only as Cotton signs on as the sheriff of Doubtful in Wyoming Territory, a range war erupts between the ranchers and the homesteaders. While most lawmen would be scared off, Cotton plans to earn his pay.
18) Whiskey River
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Mark Rogers and Bill Harder, jailed for killing a pair of tax collectors who swiped their Texas land from them while they were away fighting for the Confederacy, agree to infiltrate a gang of whiskey runners in exchange for their freedom, only to discover they would have had a better chance at surviving in front of a firing squad.
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Their father is Luke Jensen, supposedly killed in the Civil War. Their uncle Smoke is one of the fiercest gunfighters the west has ever known. It's no surprise that the inseparable Ace and Chance Jensen have a knack for taking risks--even if they have to blast their way out of them. Chance is a bit of a hothead, good with his gun and his fists. Ace is more of a thinker, sharp as a snake bite and just as deadly quick. Their skills are put to the test...
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