Valley of the Sun: Frontier Stories - Hardcover

L'Amour, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786205873 ISBN 13: 9780786205875

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of short stories captures the lives and adventures of the men and women who met the dangers, challenges, and hardships of the American West

About this title

From the Publisher:

Louis L'Amour remains one of the most popular fiction authors in the world, the master storyteller of the American frontier experience. While best known for his dozens of novels, a unique mark of L'Amour's excellence and tale-spinning appeal is that he is also perhaps the best-selling short story writer of modern times. No other author in this century has published seventeen individual short story collections, each selling well over one million copies. Valley Of The Sun is a new collection of short stories never before published in book form. Within its pages, the men and women who helped tame the American West spring to active, exciting life. Here is the danger, the mighty challenge of the raw, brutal land met head-on by the courage, the strength, and even the humor of the brave adventurers who dared to ride the lonely mesas, work the ranches and build the towns. Each story is brimming with L'Amour's authentic feel for the real West and his unerring skill at captivating readers.

From the Inside Flap:

Louis L'Amour brings you the Wild West as you've never heard it before. This classic story, complete with a full cast, stirring music and authentic sound effects, captures the spirit of the frontier -- a land both hard and beautiful, of limitless horizons and ever-present danger. This exclusive production of "Valley of the Sun" brings to life this place and time where men and women of indomitable courage, honor and individualism -- true American heroes -- fight to survive and stake their claim to the future.

Valley of the Sun

Ranch foreman Brett Larane was in a bad way. On his way back to the Double M Ranch and the pretty red-headed owner Marta Malone, straight from a cattle sale in Tucson, he was dry-gulched in the Arizona desert and left for dead with a hole in his side and a grazed scalp. Robbed of the money he'd helped the ailing ranch clear with his own sweat and blood, he found his buckskin horse, clambered on and with sheer determination as fuel, headed out to settle the score.

But how would Larane ambush the cunning outlaws in such a weakened state? With each step of the sandy desert ground he covered, he came closer to realizing his plan. All he had to do was kill the men, find the money, and pray that Marta stayed safe and sound -- and on his side. Don't miss the many other exciting dramatizations of Louis L'Amour's short stories!

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0786205873
• ISBN 13: 9780786205875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 253