Author: Louis L'Amour
Narrator: William Dufris
Unabridged: 4 hr 23 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Published: 09/01/2014
Genre: Fiction - Westerns
No one tells tales of the frontier better than Louis LAmour, who portrays the human side of westward expansionthe good and the badbefore the days of law and order. Collected here are six stories penned by Americas 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 rocks are unstable, and taking out the quartz might bring the whole thing tumbling down. Keep Travelin, Rider Tack Gentry has been away for a year when he returns to the familiar buildings of his uncle John Gentrys G Bar ranch. Now the ranch has a new owner, who tells Tack to make tracks. But Tack has other plans. Dutchmans Flat A six-man posse heads into the desert after a squatter named Lock who shot a man in the back. Once they catch him, there wont be any trial. But Lock knows the desert better than they do and can pick them off one by one. Big Medicine Old Billy Dunbar has discovered the best gold-bearing gravel that hes found in a year, but now he is lying face down in a ravine, hiding from Apaches. He is going to need a good strategy to get out of this one alive. Trail to Pie Town Dusty Barron shot a man, who had relatives in the area, and now it looks like he is going to be facing a clan war. McQueen of the Tumbling K Ward McQueen, foreman for the Tumbling K Ranch, rides into town and is shot down by gunmen and left for dead. But they made a critical mistake because McQueen is not deadand he is looking to get even.
He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe ...
Arthur Fordyce is an ordinary man blessed with a budding career, a lovely fiancee, and a sunny future. He is hardly a criminal-until he finds a wallet stuffed with money at the racetrack. In one "unguarded moment," he removes the cash and ...
As an orphaned child, Mike Bastian was taken in by the legendary outlaw Ben Curry and raised to one day take over his empire of crime. Today that day has come. As Mike prepares for his first criminal job, a goldtrain robbery, he must decide whether ...
Trap of Gold Weatherton finds the dream of a lifetime, a vein richer in gold than he ever cared to imagine. He knew he had more than he needed, but he almost lost his senses - and his life - as the fever began to take control of him. Hattan's Castle...
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Rye Tyler was twelve when his father was killed in an Indian raid. Taken in by a mysterious stranger with a taste for books and an instinct for survival, Rye is schooled in the hard lessons of life in the West. But after killing a man, he is force...
Early in Louis LAmours career, he wrote a number of novellength stories for pulp western magazines. I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared ...
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