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.
