By Louis L'Amour
TREASURES OF THE FRONTIER
This beneficial selection of as soon as misplaced tales brings to lifestyles a time of determined violence and actual braveness in a wide-open nation of fortune seekers and dreamers, lawbreakers and pioneers. A newly sworn-in marshal needs to outwit a mysterious killer who’s fleecing his buddies whereas secretly slicing their throats. . . . a tender drifter, wounded in a gunfight, reveals an opportunity to alter his ways—but he has to be keen to pay along with his lifestyles. . . . A fiercely self reliant girl and a mysterious stranger take a determined stand opposed to these out to force her from her domestic. . . . And within the haunting brief novel Monument Rock, a shadowy horseman grants a terrifying message to an blameless younger woman—the stunning fact concerning the males closest to her center. heritage, humor, motion, and experience fill the pages of those masterpieces, advised by way of one of many most popular storytellers of our time.
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