Jon Tuska
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This volume presents nine of L'Amour's ever-popular short stories--history that lives forever. "Riding for the Brand": After a narrow escape, Jed Asbury comes across a derelict covered wagon, the people and their horses killed. Now outfitted in new clothes and guns, he decides to finish what the former owners had set out to do. "Four Card Draw": Allen Ring drew four cards in a poker game with Ben Taylor and won a small ranch. It's all Allen had ever...
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
[2012], c2012
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Louis L'Amour was the most decorated author in the history of American letters and a recipient of the Medal of Freedom.
Now collected here in a single book are several of Louis L'Amour's finest Western stories the way Mr. L'Amour wrote them. At the time Louis L'Amour was writing, it was common practice for editors to rewrite the manuscript to fit certain publishing criteria. The text of The Strong Land has been restored, and the stories within it...
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010
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In "Mistakes Can Kill You," we meet Johnny O'Day, who has had to make his way in a man's world since he was a boy. Half dead from pneumonia, Joe Redlin and his wife took him in. Their natural son, Sam, harbored plenty of resentment toward the kid. But now, Sam's in big trouble, and Johnny may be the only person who can come between him and a pair of gunmen. Twenty-seven, broke, and armed, Ross Haney is "The Rider of Ruby Hills." Ross thinks he might...
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2011
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Collected for the first time in a single book are six of L'Amour's finest Western stories. The texts have been restored according to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines.
Jim Sandifer knows he'll lose his job at the B Bar Ranch as well as the girl he's sweet on when he prevents a raid by some B Bar men on the Katrischen Spread in "The Turkeyfeather Riders."
In "Four Card Draw," Allen Ring wins a small ranch-until the...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The Six-Gun Sinner by Les Savage, Jr.: Wyoming homesteader Yankee Walker refuses to deed part of his land to a railroad representative. The resulting conflict divides and devastates his family. Red Range by H. A. DeRosso: Ben Curwood's ranch is too small to win Pearl Blaine's hand, which she gives to the owner of the great Chain Link Ranch. But when Ben devises a plan to save the ranchers from drought, he finds he has miscalculated what Pearl will...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Riders of the Storm by Robert J. Horton: An encounter between an outlaw and a local constable in an electrical storm on the Montana-Canada border places Mel Davitt in a difficult position. He has just told the girl he loves that he is quitting the man-hunting business, but the sheriff is asking for his help. The Texas Hellion by Walt Coburn: A lawman poses as a wanted man in order to track down the man who framed him, causing him to spend several...