Fallon - Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures

Informationen zum Autor Our foremost storyteller of the authentic West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. There are more than 300 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! Macon Fallon had never needed more than a deck of cards, a fast horse, and a ready gun; he was counting on those things now as he led an unsuspecting group of settlers to an abandoned mining town. But while Fallon prepared to pass the ghost town off as a gold mine in the making, a funny thing happened: a real-life community started to take shape in the town he'd christened Red Horse. So when a band of vicious outlaws and a kid who fancied himself a gunslinger threatened to rip Red Horse apart, Fallon found himself caught in one predicament he'd never gambled on. He had come to Red Horse to make a quick fortune, but now he might have to pick up a gun and risk his life for a place he never wanted to call home. 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Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts.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 Macon Fallon was a stranger to the town of Seven Pines, and fortunately for him he was a stranger with a fast ­horse. In the course of an eventful life, Macon Fallon had become a connoisseur of western hospitality, and knew when a limit had been reached. Hence, when an escorting party, complete with rope, arranged to conduct him to the vicinity of a large cotton­wood where the eve­ning’s festivities would be concluded, he wasted no time on formalities, but promptly departed the premises. The moment chosen was, of course, appropriate to the situation. The ­self-­appointed posse ­were as confident as a few drinks could make them, but ­were totally unaware of the quality of the man they escorted. One of the riders had lagged a little, and at that moment they came abreast of an opening in the brush that walled the trail. Fallon rode an excellent cutting ­horse that could turn on a dime. The black ­horse went through the opening with a bound and, sensing the urgency of its rider, took off on a dead run. No ­horse Fallon had ever seen could catch that black of his in under half a mile, and by the time that distance lay behind, Fallon was prepared to resort to evasive tactics. The black had staying quality as well as an initial burst of speed; and the posse, less superbly mounted, fell rapidly behind. Unfortunately, by the time the opportunity for escape was offered, only one direction remained to Fallon . . . and westward lay a waterless waste . . . or one that was relatively so. The nearest water hole was thirty miles off, but on Fallon’s one previous visit the water there had been plentiful and good. With a safe lead, and some tracks purposely left to indicate that he had circled the town, he settled down for a long ­ride. At thirty miles, with his throat parched for a drink, the water hole p...

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• Authors: Louis L'Amour
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780593129906
• ISBN: 978-0-593-12990-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 174 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures; Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature