Louis L'Amour
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears. Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one claiming for himself the...
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WHERE THE REAL FRONTIER BEGINS
A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor in a moment of...
A young cowpuncher stakes a claim that can only be sealed with fists and a .44 Colt. . . . A gunfighter, tired of violence, finds himself pushed down a trail of bloody revenge. . . . From purple sage to gambler’s gold, from a señorita’s tempting smile to a splash of blood in the dust, here are stories with a distinctive L’Amour twist. A quiet farmer defends his honor in a moment of...
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English
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Cattlemen ride alone across the open range under the deadly aim of roving desperadoes. . . . Gamblers stake their fortunes and their lives on a deck of cards. . . . Strong-willed señoritas seek independence through an enticing combination of beauty, audacity, and spirit. . . . Lawmen and outlaws walk the same dusty streets and speak a common language: Colt, Winchester, Smith & Wesson. Gritty, tough, and unflinchingly authentic, here is...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Matagorda
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States, then tested his skills in the frontier army. Now he’s settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery—and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and a neighboring family. But the danger from outside is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarney suspects Kittery’s woman isn’t all...
Tap Duvarney lost his innocence in the War Between the States, then tested his skills in the frontier army. Now he’s settled on the Texas coast, working a ranch as the partner of his old friend Tom Kittery—and finding himself in the middle of a feud between Kittery and a neighboring family. But the danger from outside is nothing compared to the threat within, as Duvarney suspects Kittery’s woman isn’t all...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward because he was afraid of the bronc Ghost...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L'Amour is recognized the world over as one of the most prolific and popular American authors in history. Though he met with phenomenal success in every genre he tried, the form that put him on the map was the short story. Now this great writer—The Wall Street Journal recently compared with Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson—will receive his due as a great storyteller. This...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
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Hace noventa años, los hermanos Toomey, en compañía de otros 25 hombres y cuatro mil cabezas de ganado, se esfumaron camino a Arizona. Cuando es escritor e historiador Dan Sheridan es invitado al rancho de los hermanos desaparecidos por su actual dueño, no deja escapar la oportunidad. La visita concuerda de maravilla con su plan de aclarar ese misterio de cien años de antigüedad – pero el hecho es que su anfitrión...
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Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Español
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Cuando Gaylord Riley se alejó de la banda de Coburn, llevaba dinero y un sueño. Trabajó duro y construyó una cabaña, reunió una manada de reses y se enamoró de Marie Shattuck.
Pero al enfrentar falsas acusaciones de robo de ganado y asesinato, Riley se v e obligado a defender su nuevo estilo de vida de ciudadano respetuoso de la ley. Superado en número, y de cara a un escuadrón de linchamiento, Riley...
Pero al enfrentar falsas acusaciones de robo de ganado y asesinato, Riley se v e obligado a defender su nuevo estilo de vida de ciudadano respetuoso de la ley. Superado en número, y de cara a un escuadrón de linchamiento, Riley...
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Three stories of hard fighting, hard riding, and hard frontier living from the king of the modern western.
"A strong case may be made that L'Amour was the most popular American writer of the 20th century."—The Wall Street Journal
Mistakes Can Kill You
As a boy, Johnny O'Day was saved from death when a couple took him into their home—yet he always harbored jealous resentment toward their biological...
"A strong case may be made that L'Amour was the most popular American writer of the 20th century."—The Wall Street Journal
Mistakes Can Kill You
As a boy, Johnny O'Day was saved from death when a couple took him into their home—yet he always harbored jealous resentment toward their biological...
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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There is no story more distinctly American than the western and no writer as great a master of the form as Louis L’Amour. In this seventh volume of L’Amour’s collected short stories, you’ll find some of his most popular characters, heroes who have become a part of our cultural legacy, as well as the ordinary men and women whose adventures are chronicled with an immediacy no reader can resist–or ever forget.
In Louis...
In Louis...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
1
Language
English
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From the master of Western storytelling comes a collection of six action-packed tales sure to please Louis L'Amour's legion of fans.
In "Trap of Gold," Wetherton has been three months out of Horsehead when he finds his first color in a crumbling granite upthrust that resembles a fantastic ruin. The granite is slashed with a vein of quartz that is literally laced with gold! The problem is that the granite upthrust is unstable, and taking out the quartz...