Lit a shuck for Texas & other early western tales

Book Description CLASSIC LOUIS L'AMOUR Here is a passel of stories by the supreme master of the western tale, Louis L'Amour. Forgotten for almost forty years, they were penned at the outset of L'Amour's career, when he was writing for the late, lamented pulp magazines. Though he would gain his greatest success with the novel, this volume reveals him to have been an equally accomplished practitioner of short story and novelette. If you are already a Louis L'Amour fan, stories like "Lit a Shuck for Texas," "Desert Death Song," "Blood of Ryan," and "Law of the Desert Born" will confirm your opinion of the master's abilities; and if you are not yet a fan, these stories will make you one. When Louis LвЂTMAmour writes of the West, he knows it intimately, having worked extensively throughout the region in a variety of jobs Las a young man in the 1920s-30s. There he met, and learned from, the last of the gunfighters and cowtown sheriffs from the days of the Old West, when the Daltons and the Earps still rode. But the first tales of the frontier he heard were at his parentsвЂTM knees, for one of his grandfathers had been scalped by the Sioux. With this background, itвЂTMs little wonder that he became one of the supreme tellers of authentic tales of Western action and bravery. A must read! About The Author Our foremost storyteller of the Old West, Louis L'Amour has thrilled a nation by bringing to vivid life the brave men and women who settled the American frontier. L'Amour is the only author to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. There are more than 2.2 million copies of L'Amour dramatizations in BDD Audio print. A Collection of Western StoriesKeep Travelin' Rider: Tack Gengry comes home to find his ranch and girl stolen by outlaws who now run the town and everyone in it. Lit a Shuck for Texas: The Sandy Kid, a man who discovers gold and comes face to face with killers who try to steal his claim.The Nester and the Piute : The Nester tracks the Piute just to make his day.