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Showdown / Louis L'Amour.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Circle V westernPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017Copyright date: 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 176 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781683243175
  • 168324317X
Uniform titles:
  • Showdown Trail
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly onto Hardy Bishop's vast ranching domain. Either way, and probably both, it will mean war, and a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.
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Large Print Book Large Print Book Main Library Large Print Fiction WESTERN L'Amour, Louis Checked out 07/05/2024 33111008743755
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Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly onto Hardy Bishop's vast ranching domain. Either way, and probably both, it will mean war, and a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose."Showdown" first appeared in the magazine Giant Western before L'Amour reworked and expanded this story into The Tall Stranger, which was subsequently turned into a movie. There is a special magic in an original L'Amour story as it first appeared in its magazine form, and the original text has been restored for this edition.Louis L'Amour was the most decorated author in the history of American letters. In 1983 he was the first American author ever to be awarded a Special National Gold Medal by the United States Congress for lifetime literary achievement and in 1984 President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation. His Western stories are loved the world over.

First appeared under the title "Showdown Trail" and under the byline Jim Mayo in Giant Western magazine, Winter 1948.

Rock Bannon, wounded in an Indian attack, is rescued by a wagon train heading to Oregon. He has fully recovered when the train pulls into a fort to stock up on supplies. It is there that the leaders of the train meet Morton Harper, a smooth-talking man who persuades them to take an easier trail that will allow them to escape an attack by Indians. Bannon knows that there will be no escape from attack on that route and that it will lead the train directly onto Hardy Bishop's vast ranching domain. Either way, and probably both, it will mean war, and a war the pioneers will undoubtedly lose.

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