Kiowa Trail
by Louis L'Amour
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Fiction. Western. Thriller. Historical Fiction. HTML:Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line. Later that night, he was dead.Outraged by her brother's show more murder, Kate vows to destroy the entire town. But when Aaron McDonald sends east for an army of hired guns, Conn Dury and the men of the Tumbling B soon wonder if the price of Kate's revenge is too high. show less
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Conn Dury has led an exciting life up to his becoming foreman of Kate Lindy's ranch. Having lived in Mexico and moved to the USA, watched his parents murder by Apaches, raised by the Apaches for his formative years and eventually successfully fleeing from them to being rescued by an American military officer who sent him to England for a gentleman's education.
Now he has delivered Lundy's cattle to the rail head but when her brother wants to call on a beautiful woman he saw on the street, he has to cross the line from the side where the cowboys may drink and gamble to the side where the proper citizens live. When he does so, he is killed. Kate plans her revenge and Conn has to help her achieve it without mass killing.
Now he has delivered Lundy's cattle to the rail head but when her brother wants to call on a beautiful woman he saw on the street, he has to cross the line from the side where the cowboys may drink and gamble to the side where the proper citizens live. When he does so, he is killed. Kate plans her revenge and Conn has to help her achieve it without mass killing.
"She looked straight at him, with a smile on her face, and at nineteen the smile of a strange girl is a glory to the blood and a spark to the spirit, carrying a richer wine than any sold across the bar of a frontier saloon."
So begins L'amour's tale of the death of a town.
Not your typical western, with a hero who has been educated in England, raised by Apaches, a veteran of the Civil War, and a former Texas Ranger.
A quick read. I liked it alright.
So begins L'amour's tale of the death of a town.
Not your typical western, with a hero who has been educated in England, raised by Apaches, a veteran of the Civil War, and a former Texas Ranger.
A quick read. I liked it alright.
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Kate Lundy, owner of the Tumbling B, and Conn Dury, her foreman, told Tom the rules: men from the cattle drives are forbidden on the north side of town. People appreciated the money the cowboys spent but thought them too coarse to be near their homes. Enticed to come calling by Linda McDonald, daughter of one of the leading citizens, Tom Lundy broke the law and crossed the line. Later that night, he was dead.
Outraged by her brother’s murder, Kate vows to destroy the entire town. But when Aaron McDonald sends east for an army of hired guns, Conn Dury and the men of the Tumbling B soon wonder if the price of Kate’s revenge is too high.
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It was no crime for a young cowboy to want to talk to a show more pretty girl, but that was what got Tom Lundy killed.  The hard men of the Tumbling B, who had survived stampede and Kiowa lance to drive their herd up from Big Bend country, wanted to burn the town down.  But Kate Lundy, the Tumbling B's owner, had a better plan.  Calling on dozens of seasoned fighters, Kate aimed to strangle the town that lived off cowboy money but had no use for the Texans themselves.  With her rugged foreman, Conn Dury, at her side, the proud and beautiful woman might just stand a chance.  Because Conn Dury knows all about revenge--and in Kate's wild fight he's out to get some of his own. show less
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Born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 22, 1908, Louis L'Amour's adventurous life could have been the subject of one of his novels. Striking out on his own in 1923, at age 15, L'Amour began a peripatetic existence, taking whatever jobs were available, from skinning dead cattle to being a sailor. L'Amour knew early in life that he wanted to be a show more writer, and the experiences of those years serve as background for some of his later fiction. During the 1930s he published short stories and poetry; his career was interrupted by army service in World War II. After the war, L'Amour began writing for western pulp magazines and wrote several books in the Hopalong Cassidy series using the pseudonym Tex Burns. His first novel, Westward the Tide (1950), serves as an example of L'Amour's frontier fiction, for it is an action-packed adventure story containing the themes and motifs that he uses throughout his career. His fascination with history and his belief in the inevitability of manifest destiny are clear. Also present and typical of L'Amour's work are the strong, capable, beautiful heroine who is immediately attracted to the equally capable hero; a clear moral split between good and evil; reflections on the Native Americans, whose land and ways of life are being disrupted; and a happy ending. Although his work is somewhat less violent than that of other western writers, L'Amour's novels all contain their fair share of action, usually in the form of gunfights or fistfights. L'Amour's major contribution to the western genre is his attempt to create, in 40 or more books, the stories of three families whose histories intertwine as the generations advance across the American frontier. The novels of the Irish Chantry, English Sackett, and French Talon families are L'Amour's most ambitious project, and sadly were left unfinished at his death. Although L'Amour did not complete all of the novels, enough of the series exists to demonstrate his vision. L'Amour's strongest attribute is his ability to tell a compelling story; readers do not mind if the story is similar to one they have read before, for in the telling, L'Amour adds enough small twists of plot and detail to make it worth the reader's while. L'Amour fans also enjoy the bits of information he includes about everything from wilderness survival skills to finding the right person to marry. These lessons give readers the sense that they are getting their money's worth, that there is more to a L'Amour novel than sheer escapism. With over 200 million copies of his books in print worldwide, L'Amour must be counted as one of the most influential writers of westerns in this century. He died from lung cancer on June 10, 1988. (Bowker Author Biography) Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, & was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are over 260 million copies of his books in print worldwide. (Publisher Provided) show less
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- Canonical title
- Kiowa Trail
- Original title
- Kiowa Trail
- Original publication date
- 1965
- People/Characters
- Kate Lundy; Conn Dury; Tom Lundy; Linda McDonald; Aaron McDonald
- Epigraph
- We rode a Kiowa Trail, him and me,Â
with Winchester to point the way."
~From the diary of
Jordan Rascoe. - Dedication
- To
Lieut Ambrose Freeman,
my great-grandfather,Â
who lost his scalp to the Sioux, Dakota Territory, 1863 - First words
- We came up the trail from Texas in the spring of '74 and bedded our herd on the short grass beyond the railroad.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When we started for Texas I was riding on my back in an ambulance with Kate, but I had an idea that before we crossed the Nation I'd be back in the saddle again, looking at the world from between a horse's ears.
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