Over on the Dry Side - Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures

Informationen zum Autor Our foremost storyteller of the American West,  Louis L’Amour  has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world. Klappentext As part of the Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! The abandoned cabin seemed like a good place to settle down . . . except for the dead man in the front yard. But Doby Kernohan and his father had traveled a long way seeking a new start, and they were in no position to be choosy. Unfortunately, the mysterious man's violent end was an omen of darker events to come, for a cycle of violence that had begun long ago was about to reach an explosive conclusion. Caught in a tangle of murder, greed, and blood vengeance, the Kernohans have no choice but to get involved. And when a mysterious beauty from deep in the surrounding hills and a deadly stranger named Owen Chantry arrive, what had at first seemed like good fortune suddenly becomes a terrifying fight for life itself. Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.CHAPTER 1 ALL THAT SPRING, I was scared. Why Pa ever took a notion to stop on that old Chantry place I never did know. Maybe it was because he was just tired and wishful of stopping someplace?.?.?. anyplace. There’d been a dead man on the steps by the door when we drove up. He’d been a long time dead, and nobody around to bury him, and I was scared. The cabin was strong. It was built mighty solid like whoever had shaped it up and put it together had planned to stay. That was before the Indians come. There was nobody inside and the place was all tore up?.?.?. of course. It had been vacant for weeks, prob’ly. Maybe even months. That man had been dead a long time. There wasn’t much left but torn skin, dried out like old leather, and bones. His clothes was some tore up and all bloody. Pa, he stood there looking down at him a long time. “Don’t seem logical,” he said, at last. “What’s that, Pa?” “Indians most usually take a body’s clothes. They ain’t taken nothin’ from him.” “His pockets is inside out.” “I was seein’ that, boy. It do make a body think.” He turned. “Boy, you run out to the wagon an’ git my shovel. We got a buryin’ to see to.” He stepped around the body and pushed wide the cabin door. That door had been half-­open, and Pa looked in like he feared what he might see, but like I said, there wasn’t nothin’ to fear. When I come in later I saw just what he saw. A bed with two sides nailed to the outside wall, a table, two chairs?.?.?. all mighty well made by a man with lovin’ hands for wood. Pa always said you could tell a man who loved wood by the way things were fitted and dressed, nothing halfway, but smooth and nicely done. Pa couldn’t do that sort of work himself, but he had admiration for it, and it made me feel like working at it until I was good. If fin...

Product details

• Authors: Louis L'Amour
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780525486312
• ISBN: 978-0-525-48631-2
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures; Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature