Ferguson Rifle The (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)

The classic Western now newly repackaged as part of Bantam's Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures program--with never-before-seen material from Louis and his son Beau L'Amour.It began with gold that had once belonged to Montezuma. Stolen and cached in a church in Mexico it was recovered by two army officers who fled north for the French settlements. Along the way one stabbed the other to death. The remaining officer was eventually killed by Plains Indians but he buried the treasure just before he died.Now Ronan Chantry a handful of trappers and an Irish girl whose father was killed after telling her a few vague landmarks are searching for the lost treasure. But they are not alone. The girl's uncle Rafen Falvey wants it too. Like Chantry he is well educated bold and determined. Under different circumstances the two men might have been friends. But in all likelihood it wouldn't have made any difference. When it comes to gold even friendship doesn't keep men from killing each other.Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author's more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volumes 1 Beau L'Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories novels and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L'Amour's never-before-seen first novel No Traveller Returns faithfully completed for this program is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material including outlines plot notes and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.