Bud Miles was a boy when he crossed the**Mississippi. But Bud buried his father after an Indian attack, and as the wagon train pushed on through Sioux country, the boy stood as tall as any man. . . .**
Tell Sackett killed cougars at fourteen and fought a**war at fifteen. Now Tell was hauling dangerous freight-a soldier's wife and a fortune in gold-knowing that someone wanted him dead. . . .**
Laurie Bonnet was a mail-order bride who thought she was a**failure on the frontier. But when the chips were down,**she was the only one who could save her husband's life. . . .*
In these marvelous stories of the West,**Louis L'Amour tells of travelers, gunfighters, homesteaders, and adventurers: men and women making**hard and sudden choices and fighting battles that**could cut a person's life short-or open up a bold new future on the American frontier.