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Cattle drive in a deadly country... Poor, orphaned at thirteen, Otis Chancy left the Tennessee mountains with nothing but a will to work, a drive to succeed, and the backbone for a fight. So when a fight comes his way, along with a chance to buy a herd of cattle and start his own spread,... read more
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When I rode out of the timber I fell in with a cow outfit, and a sorry lot of rawhiders they were. They had a fire going and coffee on, the smell of the coffee and of bacon frying fairly set my stomach to asking questions of my face. I'd come a far piece with nothing to chew on but my thoughts. When I came up to the fire not one of them upped to say aye, yes, or no. They just sat there looking beat. This was a played-out band if ever I saw one. "Howdy," I said. "You folks taking on any help?" There was a thin, stooped-down man, with every bone showing through his thin cotton shirt, who looked around at me. If that man's cattle were as poor as he was, there'd not be fat enough on any of them to grease a skillet. "Was I to hire you, I couldn't pay. We're fresh out of everything a man needs most." Well, I could have fetched him some ideas on that score, because I'd already seen the girl who stood with her back against the chuck wagon.
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- Louis L'Amour (Author)
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0553280856
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Bantam Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0553280856
Page Count: 208
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- Dewey: 813.52
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