Authors: Louis L'Amour
ISBN-13: 9780553254778, ISBN-10: 0553254774
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: August 1982
Edition: Reprint
Louis L'Amour's 115 title-plus bibliography is astonishing on its own; even more so given the fact that his writing career did not start in earnest until his 40s. Simply being prolific, however, does not a bestselling author make. L'Amour's Western stories, as written by a real-life adventurer, capture the survivalism and code of honor on which the American frontier mythology rests.
His name was Taggart and he rode with a price on his head through the bloodred canyons of Apache country. Behind him was a ruthless bounty hunter—the deadliest lawman in the West. In front of him was a fortune in gold—and a pretty young woman hell-bent on carrying that fortune to safety. Suddenly Taggart was faced with a choice. He could either keep riding and leave the stubborn lady to fate and the Apaches. Or he could stay and help her make it out alive. But for a man like Taggart the answer was simple. He would stay. Even if it meant cutting off his own escape—even if it meant doubling his chance of death.