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by LOUIS L'AMOUR
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Conagher Summary
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Chapter 1 The land lay empty around them, lonely and still. On their right a ridge of hills with scattered cedars, on their left an open plain sweeping to a far horizon that offered a purple hint of hills. In all that vastness there was nothing but the creak and groan of the wagon, and overhead the sky, brassy with sunlight. ?It?s only a couple of miles now,? Jacob told her. ?Just around that point of rocks.? He pointed with his whipstock. She felt her heart shriveling within her. ?It?s awfully dry, isn?t it?? ?It?s dry,? Jacob?s tone was abrupt. ?It?s been a bad year.? The team plodded, heads bobbing with weariness. The last town was fifty miles behind them, the last ranch almost as far. In all that distance they had seen not a ranch, a claim shack, or a fence ... not a horse, a cow, or even a track. At last he said, ?I did not promise you much, and it is not much, but the land is ours, and what the land becomes will be ours, too. The land is not only what it is, it is what we make it.? The heavy wagon rumbled on, endlessly, monotonously. The heat was stifling, their pace so slow they could not escape the dust. It settled over their clothing, their eyebrows, in the folds of their skin. The children, weary with the heat, had fallen asleep, and for that she was thankful. The wagon reached the point of rocks, bumped over a flat rock, then rounded the point. Her heart sank. Before them, and close under the shoulder of a hill, was a cabin, a solitary building, square and bare, without shed or corral, without shrubs, without a tree. ?There it is!? There was pride in Jacob?s tone. ?There?s our house, Evie.? She knew how he felt, for in the three years of their life together she had learned this about him: that he had never known a home, had never possessed anything of his own beyond the clothes he wore, and his tools. He had worked hard to sa |
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In this classic L'Amour adventure, a dark-eyed drifter wages a war against a murderous band of rustlers. As far as the eye could see was a vast, lonely horizon. And Evie Teale and her two children were all alone here now, alone in an untamed country where the elements, the Indians, and the thieves made it far easier to die than to live. But soon a man named Conagher would drift into her life - and together they would have the courage to make a stand. |
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