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He had led the posse for miles through the desert, but now Matt Keelock was growing desperate. He was worried about Kristina. His trip to the town of Freedom for supplies had ended in a shoot-out. If caught, he would hang. Even though Kris could handle a horse and rifle as well as most men, the possibility of Oskar Neerland's finding her made Matt's blood run cold. He knew that the violent and obsessive Neerland, publicly embarrassed when Matt had...

This is an eminently readable and enjoyable collection of 10 previously unpublished short stories by the late L'Amour. In"The Ghost Fighter," Bat McGowan is the world heavyweight boxing champion. He is also a drinker, womanizer, and carouser. His managers have a chance to make some money off the title by staging matches in small towns, and decide to employ look-alike Barney Malone as a stand-in. As the exhibitions progress, Malone proves that having...

Harbin was the gunslinger. All he wanted was the gold. Badger was just a little weasel, waiting to see where the chips fell before he made his move. Nora was an orphan, searching for news of her lost parents. But Kid Rodelo? He was the man of mystery. Who was he? What did he want? Ahead of them was fifty miles of desert hell. Behind them was a band of savage, bounty-hunting Yaquis. Only Rodelo could save them. But would he?

Rafe Caradec - gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune - was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle. Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...

Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There...

They came West, risking it all to dig the gold, ride the range, conquer the greedy and carve out a legacy of freedom. Louis L'Amour tells of the real heroes of the frontier, the survivors, for whom hanging tough was as natural as drawing breath.

Kilkenny wasn't looking for trouble when he entered the Clifton House stage station, but trouble found him when a reckless youngster called Tetlow challenged him, drew his gun, and paid for it with his life. Looking to escape the fast-draw reputation he never wanted, Kilkenny settles in the lonely mountains of Utah, planning to ranch in a high, lush valley. Jared Tetlow is a powerful rancher who is determined to run his vast herd on the limited grasslands...

Men like Lonigan, whose quick draw and hard fists were as respected as his reputation for doing right by the people who did right by him. Lonigan didn't just ride herd for Tom Gurney's Circle G, he loved it as if it were his own. But now that Tom was dead his daughter Ruth was braving the hard cattledrive into Dodge, and it didn't look like she would make it thanks to the conniving outlaw band who thought she was easy pickins'. But they hadn't counted...

A collection of nearly 1,000 quotations from the books of Louis L'Amour.