End of the Drive - Hardcover

L'Amour, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553106481 ISBN 13: 9780553106480

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1997

Synopsis

End of the Drive captures all the grit, grandeur, and glory of the men and women who wielded pistol and plow, Bible and branding iron to tame a wild country. Here a boy of seventeen, yearning to prove he's a man, squares up against an outlaw...and discovers that what counts is not how fast you can draw a gun but how much faith you have in yourself. A veteran trail driver, who's faced lightning and hail, raiding Comanche and thundering stampedes, finds that there's nothing quite so dangerous as the courting of a beautiful woman

Here, too, in stories told with L'Amour's patented poignancy and power, a homesteader fighting for his rights is brutally beaten and crawls off to die...only to stumble upon an ancient talisman that restores his faith and will to live. A preacher from a distant land rides into a small frontier town with a voice full of fire and a saddlebag full of miracles...to deliver a promise and a warning that lead the local folk to a most surprising revelation. And in the full-length novella "Rustler Roundup", the hardworking citizens of a law-abiding town are pushed to the edge to defend all they hold dear. As suspicion spreads and evidence mounts, the rumors of rustlers in their midst threaten to explode into a full-blown range war

Each of these stories bears the master's touch--comic twists, stark realism, crackling suspense--all the elements that have made Louis L'Amour a frontier legend in his own right. In End of the Drive, L'Amour brilliantly illuminates the dramatic struggles and enduring truths, the self-reliance and self-determination that have long beat at the heart of America's greatness.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Newly discovered frontier stories published for the first time anywhere!

The soul of the West lives in the writings of Louis L'Amour, America's favorite storyteller. He has blazed a trail across the land of our dreams and our destiny, across a time and a place where America came of age. End of the Drive is comprised of seven unforgettable, never-before-published tales, together with one complete novella--an epic collection you will treasure forever.

About the Author:

Louis L’Amour is undoubtedly the bestselling frontier novelist of all time. He is the only American-born author in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Congressional Gold Medal in honor of his life's work. He has published ninety novels; twenty-seven short-story collections; two works of nonfiction; a memoir, Education of a Wandering Man; and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 300 million copies of his books in print worldwide.
From the Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553106481
• ISBN 13: 9780553106480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 257