His Brother's Debt (Louis L'Amour) [Abridged, Audiobook] [Audio Cassette]

Louis L'Amour (Author), Dramatization (Reader)

Book Description

Series: Louis L'Amour | Publication Date: June 1, 1995

Classic Western Adventure From America's Favorite Storyteller Louis L'Amour

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, sweeps listeners back to the Old West of the late 1800's. Filled with cowboys and hustlers, fast guns and eager innocents, this exclusive production of His Brother's Debt brings to life the true flavor of the western frontier.

His Brother's Debt

Cattle rancher Ben Kerr wants Jim and Jack Casady's prime farmland real bad. He's offered them good money, but they won't sell. When the Casady brothers find Kerr's cattle grazing on their land, surrounded by broken fences, anger rises up like bile in Jack Casady's gut and tempers flare.

As Jack rushes up from behind to warn Jim of an impending ambush by Kerr and his cronies, he's mistakenly shot by his own brother. Jim, devastated by his devastated by his mistake, heads for the hills to do some soul-searching, haunted by the vision of the brother he'd gunned down.

But Jim finds something even better than solitude to chase away his grief on his journey. He discovers that sometimes it takes more courage to walk away from a fight than to draw, and that maybe, just maybe, the best payback he could give his brother is to start living his own life again.

Don't miss the many other exciting dramatizations of Louis L'Amour's short stories!

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Classic Western Adventure From America's Favorite Storyteller Louis L'Amour

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, sweeps listeners back to the Old West of the late 1800's. Filled with cowboys and hustlers, fast guns and eager innocents, this exclusive production of His Brother's Debt brings to life the true flavor of the western frontier.

His Brother's Debt

Cattle rancher Ben Kerr wants Jim and Jack Casady's prime farmland real bad. He's offered them good money, but they won't sell. When the Casady brothers find Kerr's cattle grazing on their land, surrounded by broken fences, anger rises up like bile in Jack Casady's gut and tempers flare.

As Jack rushes up from behind to warn Jim of an impending ambush by Kerr and his cronies, he's mistakenly shot by his own brother. Jim, devastated by his devastated by his mistake, heads for the hills to do some soul-searching, haunted by the vision of the brother he'd gunned down.

But Jim finds something even better than solitude to chase away his grief on his journey. He discovers that sometimes it takes more courage to walk away from a fight than to draw, and that maybe, just maybe, the best payback he could give his brother is to start living his own life again.

Don't miss the many other exciting dramatizations of Louis L'Amour's short stories!

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition (June 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553473042
• ISBN-13: 978-0553473049
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,012,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #16 in Books > Books on Cassette > Literature & Fiction > Westerns

More About the Author

"I think of myself in the oral tradition--as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of a campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered--as a storyteller. A good storyteller."

It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world re-created in his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. Not only could he physically fill the boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally "walked the land my characters walk." His personal experiences as well as his lifelong devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L'Amour the unique knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.

Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L'Amour could trace his own in North America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward, "always on the frontier." As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he absorbed all he could about his family's frontier heritage, including the story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.

Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L'Amour left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs, including seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, and miner, and was an officer in the transportation corps during World War II. During his "yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.

Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After developing a widespread following for his many frontiers and adventure stories written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full length novel, Hondo, in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 120 books is in print; there are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide, making him one of the bestselling authors in modern literary history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and television movies.

The recipient of many great honor and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the first novelist to ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.

Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children, Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour publishing tradition forward with new books written by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam.