While investigating the shooting death of Jesse Lock, Hopalong hires himself out as a foreman for the Rocking R Ranch and teaches a pack of rustlers new respect for the law. 200,000 first printing.
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Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping one scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the monthly stagecoach shipments of gold. Hopalong is determined to stop those responsible. But even the best gunfighter needs men he can trust to watch his back, men willing to risk their lives to do what's right. With their help, Hopalong fights to save the Rocking R, only to find himself the target of a ruthless gunman in a life-and-death struggle for frontier justice.
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Hopalong rides into a firestorm of violence and betrayal. On the rain-drenched trail to the lawless town of Seven Pines, Hopalong discovers two men -- one dead, the other badly wounded. Returning with medical help, Hopalong finds the wounded man has been shot through the temple. Who would commit such a murder? To find out, Hopalong hires on at Bob Ronson's Rocking R Ranch. There he learns that more than a thousand cattle have been run off by men keeping one scheming eye on the ranch and the other on the monthly stagecoach shipments of gold. Hopalong is determined to stop those responsible. But even the best gunfighter needs men he can trust to watch his back, men willing to risk their lives to do what's right. With their help, Hopalong fights to save the Rocking R, only to find himself the target of a ruthless gunman in a life-and-death struggle for frontier justice.
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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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Louis L'Amour's novel is exciting and action-packed.,
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This review is from: The Trail to Seven Pines (A Hopalong Cassidy Novel) (Hardcover)
Louis L'Amour has done it again! "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel", is another L'Amour masterpiece that can be added among his other great works and ranks among the best western novels of all time. L'Amour has successfully portrayed Hopalong Cassidy as the ruff and heroic figure of the Bar 20 that Clarence E. Mulford started. Through his vivid description's, L'Amour makes you feel like you are riding along with Hopalong and the ever-present dangers on the range. While reading,"The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel", I also felt like I was sitting around a campfire out in the wilderness somewhere and listening to a master storyteller. Louis L'Amour has mastered the art of storytelling and "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel" is a great example of his mastered skill. From start to finish,"The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel" is packed with action and the inevitable, but unpredictable gun battles, that make the Old West so fascinating. L'Amour not only wrote a great work of art, but also uses a style of writing that makes the novel readable by young and old alike. Through this novel L'Amour shows how he can turn a good western into an even better one by throwing a few mysteries into the loop of events. With L'Amour's writing of "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel", he has raised the standards for western writers to see if they can rise to the challenge and surpass the newly set point of quality. Through L'Amour's carefully picked words, he describes the beauty of the terrain and his knowledge of the famed American Cowboy and life on the range. "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel", is just flat out entertaining and should be read by anyone with any interest in westerns or the Old West way of life. Through Hopalong Cassidy, L'Amour portray's the well-mannered and tough American Cowboy that shaped our frontier. L'Amour also takes the novel a bit further by including in it murderer's, thieves, and rustler's all in one book. If I were to grade "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel", I would give it an A+. "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel" has everything you could want in a western and then some. The novel still includes the basic battle between good and evil, but adds a little more twist with their being murderer's, theives, and rustler's up against a good-natured cowboy and his outfit of a few good men, all at the same time! I say all at the same time because most western's are about stage robber's or rustler's, but not about stage robber's, murderer's, and rustler's together. I like how L'Amour added these evils together because it made the novel more interesting in the fact that it makes the novel more unpredictable as to what will happen next. If you think I am putting, "The Trail to Seven Pines:A Hopalong Cassidy Novel" on a pedistal, then you are right. I think it is the best western I have ever read and I have been reading them for many years. If you do not believe me, then go out to a local bookstore and if you can find the novel, read it. I hope you enjoy the novel as much as I did and if you do, then write your own review.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Trail to Seven Pines,
By Brittany Burrell (Hiram, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Trail to Seven Pines (Mass Market Paperback)
well i had to do a school prodject that had to do with reading a book that you liked and could read and stay interested in it. so i talked to my dad about it and he told me to read a Louis LaMaur book. so I picked the Trail to Seven Pines. All though I have only read to the third chapter this has been the best book that I've probley ever read. Because it has a plot like all of the Clint Eastwood movies that are all my favorites. But i am working on finishing the book very soon just because i wont to know what happens in the end.
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