Ten Unforgettable
Stories
Together For The First Time
In One Extraordinary Volume!
Here for the first time in one collection are original
short stories by Louis L'Amour. Famed for his contributions
to the Western genre, L'Amour's skills as a writer transcended
merely one subject, as he displays in the wide range of
settings, styles, and characters in this collection. From
Tibetan peasants battling Chinese soldiers in the Himalayas
to a lone hunter stalking a killer Grizzly Bear in Alaska
to a prizefighter struggling for survival against both
his opponents in the ring and the mob outside of it, L'Amour
is an expert at getting to the heart of a multitude of
conflicts, a master at what drives a diverse group of
heroes. L'Amour displays his ease with a multitude of
styles, from the jargon-heavy, hyper-kinetic language
of the fast-talking boxing manager in Fighter's
Fiasco, to the more deliberate, Marlowe-esque
drawl of private detective Neil Shannon in The Vanished
Blonde to the fluid prose and beautifully descriptive
language used to make the landscape a character in The
Quest for the Bear. May There Be a Road captures
those sudden moments when lives and futures are altered
forever!
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