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Over on the Dry Side
(Talon and Chantry #7)
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AS PART OF THE LOUIS L'AMOUR LOST TREASURES SERIES, THIS EDITION CONTAINS EXCLUSIVE BONUS MATERIALS!
The abandoned cabin seemed like a good place to settle down. . .except for the dead man in the front yard. But Doby Kernohan and his father traveled a long way seeking a new start, and they were in no position to be choosy. Unfortunately, the mysterious man's violent end was ...more
The abandoned cabin seemed like a good place to settle down. . .except for the dead man in the front yard. But Doby Kernohan and his father traveled a long way seeking a new start, and they were in no position to be choosy. Unfortunately, the mysterious man's violent end was ...more
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Published
October 13th 2020
by Random House Audio
(first published October 1st 1975)
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A dead body, an empty cabin, a mysterious girl, a lone rider, and a gang after a treasure make for a very exciting western adventure. I was looking forward to a tale told alternating by a sixteen year old boy with lots of grit and a hard man with cold gray eyes from two talented narrators splitting the audiowork.
Doby Kernohan and his pa find a murdered man and a deserted cabin. They are tired of drifting so settle in to work the land. Doby worries there is trouble coming and he isn’t wrong when ...more
Doby Kernohan and his pa find a murdered man and a deserted cabin. They are tired of drifting so settle in to work the land. Doby worries there is trouble coming and he isn’t wrong when ...more
Hard to believe but this was my first sampling of Lamour. Most definitely won't be my last.
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Good L'Amour tale as Owen Chantry must revenge his brother's death while fighting off bad guys and hunting for a supposed treasure. And at the same time he must win fair maiden's hand. Well told with lots of action. Recommended to western fans!
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We got a free stack of L'Amour paperbacks about a year ago and every so often I pick one from the pile to read. Maybe I've gotten spoiled by T.V. Olson, Lewis Patten, Elmore Leonard, Clifton Adams and others but, man, this was torture to get through. The story is fine but L'Amour insists on sabotaging the pace by having Chantry, the lone gunman hero, always lecture the other characters, and the reader, about life in the west. He's the most longwinded gunman to draw a shooting iron. Also making t
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THE MYSTERY BEHIND THE CABIN
Another great fast moving twisting western by a great author. A man a d his so come upon a cabin, with the body of a dead man laying in the door way. They check the man to see if there's any identification on him, and of course there isn't. The cabin was in disarray, dusty, but we'll built with sturdy homemade furniture.
The father and son clean the cabin and bring in their few items.
I think everyone who likes Louis L'Amour books should read this adventure. It's an i ...more
Another great fast moving twisting western by a great author. A man a d his so come upon a cabin, with the body of a dead man laying in the door way. They check the man to see if there's any identification on him, and of course there isn't. The cabin was in disarray, dusty, but we'll built with sturdy homemade furniture.
The father and son clean the cabin and bring in their few items.
I think everyone who likes Louis L'Amour books should read this adventure. It's an i ...more
Doby Kemohan and his father settle down in an abandoned cabin. Except for the dead man in the front yard, it is an idea location, or so it seems. They get caught in a fight involving murder, greed, and vengeance and have to deal with a circle of violence.
In Over on the Dry Side, Doby Kernohan and his father found an empty cabin but when they walked up to the house there was a dead body on the front steps. They are looking for a new start away from the city and people so they took the cabin. After about a month of living in the cabin a man shows up, it is the owner's brother, Owen Chantry. When Owen comes around some trouble starts with this cowboy gang and Owen, they come around and try to find some treasure they think is there. Which leads to v
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I love that the treasure that the bad guys were looking for wasn't what any of them would consider treasure. I also thought that L'Amour pointing out that book reading was not a common thing in the west. None of these people could fathom that a manuscript from an ancient civilization would have any value. To them it was just a book and of no importance. I often think that many still feel this way and it is very sad. Reading can take to so many times and places that most of us will never be able
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A fine L'Amour story about the wilderness and survival and part of his running Fallon/Chantry/Sackett family series. A teenaged boy and his father come upon a cabin in a fine valley with a long-dead man on the porch. What happened to him? Was it the local Apaches? Outlaws? All they knew is that his name was Chantry.
Along comes Chantry's brother Owen, and things get complicated. There's a girl, there's hidden treasure, and there are bad men hunting the treasure. But what if the treasure isn't gol ...more
Along comes Chantry's brother Owen, and things get complicated. There's a girl, there's hidden treasure, and there are bad men hunting the treasure. But what if the treasure isn't gol ...more
I keep expecting L’Amour’s books to be less enjoyable. Its been a long time since I read the first one. I just finished two I had as paperbacks - wanted to clear out my paperback backlog. Now I wish I’d reqd them sooner. My reading habits are inclining towards reading everything written by an author I have enjoyed. With L’Amour that would/will keep me busy a long time.
The stories are simple.
I recall years ago telling my father that L’Amour’s stories were too simple. My father had become a big L’ ...more
The stories are simple.
I recall years ago telling my father that L’Amour’s stories were too simple. My father had become a big L’ ...more
This is a great novel for in between heftier tomes. It reads very fast and the prose is not challenging.
Overall its a good western with a nice mix of classic characters and references to literature, myth and history.
The novel features a small cast of characters and the use of a first person and third person perspective create a nice dynamic that ultimately is a little under cooked.
While the action is brisk and comes to a satisfying conclusion there were several details that did not add up und ...more
Overall its a good western with a nice mix of classic characters and references to literature, myth and history.
The novel features a small cast of characters and the use of a first person and third person perspective create a nice dynamic that ultimately is a little under cooked.
While the action is brisk and comes to a satisfying conclusion there were several details that did not add up und ...more
On the move west.
The Kernohans come across a homestead.
With the owner laying shot dead across the threshold.
The father falling in love with the well made home.
After tending to the owners remains.
Decides it is to well made, just to fall into abandon and decay.
Father and son end up making it their own. Here they will stay and put down roots.
A stranger arrives, kin to the slain man.
An outlaw gang also wanting the land, for their own reasons.
A possible secret treasure, concealed by the dead man.
Have ...more
The Kernohans come across a homestead.
With the owner laying shot dead across the threshold.
The father falling in love with the well made home.
After tending to the owners remains.
Decides it is to well made, just to fall into abandon and decay.
Father and son end up making it their own. Here they will stay and put down roots.
A stranger arrives, kin to the slain man.
An outlaw gang also wanting the land, for their own reasons.
A possible secret treasure, concealed by the dead man.
Have ...more
I enjoy books written by Louis L'Amour. I have read many of them so they tend to have the same format- strong tough guy- wins out in the end- kind of thing. This story is about a boy and his dad coming upon a nicely built homestead. They find the owner dead on the step. Since they are out in the middle of nowhere, they decide to clean the place up and try to make it a home. In the meantime, the man who owned the cabin's brother comes on the place. He allows them to stay because of all the work t
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I'm reading Robin Hobb's Fitz and The Fool trilogy, and started the final one (Assassin's Fate) immediately after finishing the second volume. These are great books but quite intense and I felt a little OD'd on them. And, fortuitously, bookbub had this book on sale. I loved L'Amour as a kid so knew what to expect and grabbed it, and read it in one sitting. He was a great writer - not in the literary sense but in the page turning, story telling sense. In the vein of H Rider Haggard and Conan Doyl
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I rarely give any book five stars, but this beautiful novel rises above L'Amour's normal fine yarn-spinning. It's told from multiple perspectives, third person and first person in the name of a sixteen-year-old eager to prove himself a man.
The story puts the beauty of Nature on display as much as the human experience. Wisdom of being prepared in the wilderness comes thru too. All together the novel reads much like a parable, designed to teach and entertain. That skill, that morality is to be sa ...more
The story puts the beauty of Nature on display as much as the human experience. Wisdom of being prepared in the wilderness comes thru too. All together the novel reads much like a parable, designed to teach and entertain. That skill, that morality is to be sa ...more
I needed a quick and easy book so I pulled this one from my bookshelves. I own the book so I know I've read it before but I had no memory of the plot. Louis L'Amour books can kind of run together after a while, but I liked that this one was a little different with the dual protagonist. The older, wiser, more experienced hero and the teenager who likely reminds him a little of his younger self. Did L'Amour ever write more about Doby? I'd love to read what happened to him ten years later.
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This book is pretty much the L'Amour formula defined, which is always enjoyable but nothing too special once you've read it a few times. What bumped this up from 3 to 4 stars for me were the sections from the perspective of the 16-year old Doby, which were quite entertaining and (from what I recall) quite accurate in terms of the thoughts, longings, and dreams of boys that age and the less than wise actions that can follow as a result!
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A boy and his father arrive at a home with a body at the front door. The house and the barn are in good shape and they move in. A young girl shows up and the story of the murdered man is slowly revealed. Another man shows up and they discover he is the brother of the murdered man. The murderers are still looking for a treasure, but is the treasure a monetary one? The story is developed from there.
Grit finds a home!
Who said a Cowboy tale was simple entertainment? Lamont had has something.special waiting for you when you read his novels. His people are real, his characters jump from the page like one is telling about a REAL person! Good caricature, and real tales are hard to put down. Look for many a night of page turning!
Who said a Cowboy tale was simple entertainment? Lamont had has something.special waiting for you when you read his novels. His people are real, his characters jump from the page like one is telling about a REAL person! Good caricature, and real tales are hard to put down. Look for many a night of page turning!
This one was really good. I found myself thinking about it when I wasn’t reading. The characters were interesting, the plot twists were fun as well. I loved the way Chantry and his brother communicated with each other. I will say that the ending happened a little abruptly for me, but other than that, a very satisfying yarn!
This was told from two points of view, the narrator's and the 16 year old boy's. It felt like sooooo much time passed in this book with not much happening. It had a curious theory about the lost treasure everyone sought.
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It’s always so refreshing to read a book where good guys and bad guys are clearly defined and the good guys always win.
The only thing I didn’t like about this book was how the narration switched between first and third person.
The only thing I didn’t like about this book was how the narration switched between first and third person.
Good stuff
Very interesting story. Haven't read much Western and it held my attention.
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This was my debut reading Western genre and it was ok. The book was interesting. Now I know why "Westerns" are called Westerns.
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A real rootin-tootin-shootin-easy-readin-entertainin western with a bit of romance thrown in.
Edge of your seat reading
Excellent reading, was hard to put down and found out that when I put it down I had read the complete book.
Excellent reading, was hard to put down and found out that when I put it down I had read the complete book.
Hadn’t read L’Amour in a while. He really takes you to the West. Girl, treasure, gunfights, and nature.
a GOOD READ BY ATOP WESTERN AUTHOR.
Outstanding!
What can I say after all if it is written by this Author all i can say is it is a wonderful exceptionally fine book!
What can I say after all if it is written by this Author all i can say is it is a wonderful exceptionally fine book!
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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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