Dutchman's Flat

by Louis L'Amour

1992

Status

Available

Publication

Bantam (1992), Edition: Reissued with Corrections, 258 pages

Description

Fiction. Short Stories. Western. Thriller. HTML: TURN HOME, RIDER   In this land, the place you leave behind might not be there when you get back. At least not the way you knew it. Tack Gentry of the G Bar, Chat Lock of Dutchman�??s Flat, and Ward McQueen of the Tumbling K knew how it felt to struggle against men who were trying to take from them what they believed in. For the bad rush in when the good leave, and men will choose to fight, not just over drunken threats, gambling losses, and honor, but for land, friendships, family, and even love�??a struggle magnificently captured in these eleven great stories written and handpicked by the incomparable Louis L�??Amour hims

User reviews

LibraryThing member kazan
Ended up being a book of short stories. Most where so,so but the story "West of the Tularosas" was a great read by it self.
LibraryThing member fuzzi
A solid selection of short stories in this authorized L'Amour collection. I enjoyed the introductions to each story, which give the reader some background of topics touched upon within. Not every tale is of gunfights or range wars. One I especially liked was about the middle-aged grandfather trying
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to mine enough gold to save his widowed daughter's ranch, and outwit Apaches at the same time. The Tumbling K is featured in a couple of the stories, as is Kilkenny.
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Original publication date

1986-03

Physical description

258 p.; 6.76 inches

ISBN

0553281119 / 9780553281118

Barcode

1601128
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