Description
''L'Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with a desert heat wave boiling up from a sun-baked paragraph. A master storyteller...for reading under the stars.'' -- Kirkus Reviews ''L'Amour is the kind of storyteller who makes the wolves come out of the woods to listen.'' -- People , praise for the author Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988) was an American author whose Western stories are loved the world over. Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, he was the first American novelist ever to be awarded a National Gold Medal by the United States Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Features & Highlights
- [*This is a Paperback Print Edition]
- #1
- New York Times
- Bestselling Aithor
- Early in Louis L'Amour's career, he wrote a number of novel-length stories for ''pulp'' Western magazines that he later revised and expanded to be published again as full-length novels. This is one of his early creations.
- A Man Called Trent
- opens on nester Dick Moffitt lying dead where he was killed by King Bill Hale's riders. His son Jack and adopted daughter Sally, who witnessed the murder, go for safety to a cabin owned by a man called ''Trent'' -- an alias for Kilkenny, who is seeking to escape his reputation as a gunfighter.





