I'm just passing' through, the rider said when they asked him his name.  And from then on, in the high country around Parrot City, he was called just that:  Mr. Passing' Through, a man who rode a blue roan with a skull and crossbones brand and didn't know to keep to himself.  ... more »

He came out of Malpais, the terrible volcanic badlands where nothing can live, riding a giant red stallion no other man could put a hand to.  His boots were polished, his speech was gentle, but his guns were quick and smooth as silk.  He shot first and talked later. From the Paperback ... more »

Marian Crane has been in love with Rolph McKenzie since almost forever, but he sees her as a butterfly who flits from man to man, from job to job, and even country to country, never lighting anywhere for long. It's not until he's shamed into giving her a job in his boat-brokerage/marina that he begins ... more »

Spring had come. Despite the many wet and gusty days which April had thrust in rude challenge upon reluctant May, in the glory of the triumphant sun which flooded the concave blue of heaven and the myriad shaded green of earth, the whole world knew to-day, the whole world proclaimed that spring had come ... more »

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In this exciting collection of short stories, Louis L'Amour, the legendary voice of the American West, celebrates the unique breed of men who worked the great cattle ranches.  Men like Dan Regan, who refused to surrender when trouble came -- Con Fargo, who would fight for what was his--despite ... more »

Contient les aventures suivantes : Flamme d'argent. La boite en carton. La figure jaune. L'employé de l'agent de change. Le « Gloria-Scott ». Le rituel des Musgrave. Les propriétaires de Reigate. Un estropié. Le malade à demeure. L'interprète grec. Le traité naval. Le problème final   more »

I think I have met Ralph Conner. Indeed, I am sure I have - once in a canoe on the Red River, once on the Assinaboine, and twice or thrice on the prairies to the West. That was not the name he gave me, but, if I am right, it covers one of the most honest and genial of the strong characters that are fighting ... more »

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A man of curiously varied and comprehensive knowledge, and with the most charming personality; a writer who, treating of a wide variety of subjects, touched nothing which he did not make distinctive, he filled a place which no man living can exactly occupy. Grant Allen was born in Kingston, Ontario in ... more »

The beating of a gentle minister inside his church and a hate message on one wall launch wry-witted librarian Juanita Wills on a quest to learn who's shattering the peace in her small Oklahoma town. Defying her policeman boyfriend's warning against amateur sleuthing, Juanita decodes a mysterious cipher ... more »

Rock Bannon rode a steel-dust stallion that was as stubborn and leather-tough as he was. Scouting for a wagon train full of high hopes, Rock saved the Eastern-bred settlers from a brutal Indian attack. But they paid him back with scorn when he advised against following a fast-talker named Morton Harper ... more »