Ride the River - Softcover

Lamour, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055323742X ISBN 13: 9780553237429

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1999

Synopsis

In Ride the River, Louis L’Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortune from a murderous thief and teach him what it means to be a Sackett. Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee homeā until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance. Echo could take care of herself as well as any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer, figured that cheating the money from the young girl would be like taking candy from a baby. If he couldn’t hoodwink Echo out of the cash, he’d just steal it from her outright. And if she put up a fight? There were plenty of accidents that could happen to a country girl on her first trip to the big city.

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From the Publisher

No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley. She was still a Sackett -- sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who's stop at nothing to cheat her out of her inheritance. There she'd prove once and for all the she could ride the river with the best.

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Filled with exciting tales of the frontier, the chronicle of the Sackett family is perhaps the crowning achievement of one of our greatest storytellers.
In Ride the River Louis L'Amour spins the tale of a young woman who has to protect her family fortune from a murderous thief -- and teaches him what it means to be a Sackett....
Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett had never been far from her Tennessee home -- until she made the long trek to Philadelphia to collect an inheritance. Echo could take care of herself as well as any Sackett man, but James White, a sharp city lawyer, figured that cheating the money from the young country girl would be like taking candy from a baby.
If he couldn't hoodwink Echo out of the cash, he'd just steal it from her outright. And if she put up a fight? There were plenty of accidents that could happen to a country girl on her first trip to the big city....

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 055323742X
• ISBN 13: 9780553237429
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256