Big Country, Vol. 3: Stories of Louis L'Amour

Product Description Louis L'Amour said that the West was no place for the frightened or the mean. It was a ''big country needing big men and women to live in it.'' This volume presents five more of L'Amour's fine short stories about the West, restored to how they first appeared in their initial publication in magazines. The Paiute in The Nester and the Paiute is someone Sheriff Todd has been keeping his eye on. In His Brother s Debt, Casady had reasons for not going to town, but he couldn't say no to a lady. In Four Card Draw, Allen Ring wins a small ranch in a poker game, but Marshall Bilton says no one is allowed to live there. In The Turkeyfeather Riders, Jim Sandifer knows that what he plans to do will forfeit him the gal he loves. In Riding for the Brand, Jed Ashbury finds an abandoned covered wagon and decides to finish what the former owners had intended to do. Review A master storyteller....for reading under the stars. --Kirkus ReviewsL'Amour is popular for all the right reasons. His books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever.... --Wall Street JournalL'Amour is the kind of storyteller who makes the wolves come out of the woods to listen. --People About the Author LOUIS L'AMOUR (1908-1988), American author born in Jamestown, North Dakota, was the most decorated author in the history of American letters. He is the only American-born author in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his life's work. His Western stories are loved the world over.