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Guns of the Timberlands
Clay Bell spent the last six years fighting Indians, rustlers, and the wilderness itself to make the B-Bar ranch the prize of the Deep Creek Range. But Jud Devitt, a ruthless speculator from the East, now threatens everything Clay has worked for. Devitt, holding a contract with the Mexican Central to deliver railroad ties, wants to harvest timber off the land where Clay gr...more
Mass Market Paperback, 208 pages
Published
June 29th 2004
by Bantam
(first published June 1955)
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In this nice little western, lumberjacks ("timber beasts") in Arizona throw a new theme into an otherwise rather formulaic genre. The protagonist Clay Bell has settled in a nice mountain valley to ranch after being a cowboy, soldier, hunter, fighter, and prospector. A few years and his B-Bar Ranch is well on its way but still not on a paying basis when Jud Devitt arrives in town with plans to log the B-Bar's summer pasture on federal land in the mountains. Devitt, our maligned antag...more
After reading two or three of L'Amour's books, he is pretty predictable. Nevertheless, he acquired much trivia from the Old West which he sprinkled throughout his novels to make them interesting. Somehow, the "good guy" alwyas getting the girl is fun and appealing and causes the reader to open yet another of L'Amour's numerous tales of the Wild West.
The sixth western by L'Amour takes a little different twist. Still the ex-gunfighter trying to settle down theme, but this time the problem is a logging operation who wants his land. Interesting due the descriptions of the loggers, as they are different than the usual cowboys, gunfighters and cattlemen. A good read.
Great book! Even though I had read it before it really got my blood going. The bad guys were so bad I just wanted to punch something and the good guys are so believable which is not always the case with good old Louis L'Amour. This one really shows how to act when everything seems to be going against you.
Rather liked this one. I like how L'Amour uses different people of the West-lumberjacks in this one-to help tell the tale of the West. Good enough book by a great author.
This book is a pretty stock Western. There is a hero, the girl he falls in love with, and a bad guy. You know how it is going to end, you just don't know how the author is going to get there. It's a quick, enjoyable light read.
great book read it 2 days loved it
Pretty good.
4 1/2 stars
Fun, quick read
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I just love books like this where the good-guy has morals and ethics, yet also is quite capable of standing up and fighting when necessary. I like that the good-guy isn't just good, he also has gathered a wealth of experience and good people around him.
I really liked this book. I keep forgeting how good a Louis L'amour book can be until I pick one up and read it.
I tried Dad. I know you liked Louis L'Amour's books but it just doesn't not ring my chimes.
This one is SOOOO good! It is one that i would read agian soon!
Love it, I have read it again and again.
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Louis L'Amour was an American author. L'Amour's books, primarily Western fiction, remain enormously popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death all 101 of his works were in print (86 novels, 14 short-story collections and one full-length work of nonfiction) and he was considered "one of the world's most popular writers".
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