Long out of print, here is the third of L'Amour's classic Hopalong Cassidy novels (following his 1991 and 1992 bestsellers The Rustlers of West Fork and The Trail to Seven Pines). Searching for his old friend Red Connors in California's cattle country, Hopalong finds Red in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell.
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Hopalong Cassidy's third adventure pits Hopalong against a gang of frontier cattle rustlers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Hopalong rode into cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he's sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt's about to learn the hard way that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy, you better make sure he never gets up again.
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"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.
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.
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As Red Connors put the sorrel up the slope he felt the big horse break stride and knew that it was all in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hitch rail, rubbish pile, sage hen, big drive, stolen cattle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Connors, Jack Bolt, Hopalong Cassidy, Joe Gamble, Sim Aragon, Pod Griffin, Sue Gibson, High Rock, Pete Aragon, Frank Gillespie, Mormon John, Dru Monaghan, Picket Pin, Manuel Aragon, Mesquite Jenkins, Abel Garson, Miss Sue, Surprise Valley, Pahute Peak, Pinto Springs, Copper Mountain, Long Valley, Soldier Meadows New!
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As Red Connors put the sorrel up the slope he felt the big horse break stride and knew that it was all in. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hitch rail, rubbish pile, sage hen, big drive, stolen cattle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Red Connors, Jack Bolt, Hopalong Cassidy, Joe Gamble, Sim Aragon, Pod Griffin, Sue Gibson, High Rock, Pete Aragon, Frank Gillespie, Mormon John, Dru Monaghan, Picket Pin, Manuel Aragon, Mesquite Jenkins, Abel Garson, Miss Sue, Surprise Valley, Pahute Peak, Pinto Springs, Copper Mountain, Long Valley, Soldier Meadows New!
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- The Louis L'Amour Companion by Robert Weinberg on page 279, page 291, and Back Matter
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