Thunder in the Dust

by Alan Le May

This work is written by Alan LeMay. From the day Tom Cloud began ranching in Baja California he was plagued by rustlers who kept draining cattle from his far-flung herds. But the rustling ceased when he hired a Mexican advanturer, El Fuerte, to protect his range. Then a prospector was murdered, and Cloud learned that El Fuerte had recruited an army in the hills and was formenting a revolution. Cloud took the chance to stop El Fuerte though it meant risking everything including the love of a beautiful woman.

Genres: Westerns

263 pages, Hardcover

First published May 28, 2001

About the author

Alan Brown Le May was an American novelist and screenplay writer. He is most remembered for two classic Western novels, The Searchers and The Unforgiven. They were adapted into the motion pictures "The Searchers" and "The Unforgiven".

He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for "North West Mounted Police" (1940), "Reap the Wild Wind" (1942), "Blackbeard the Pirate" (1952). He wrote the original source novel for "Along Came Jones" (1945), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of other novels and short stories. Le May wrote and directed "High Lonesome" (1950). Le May also wrote and produced (but did not direct) "Quebec" (1951.