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of him."
Clay Bell's head was throbbing. He walked to the water trough and ducked his
head once, then again. He splashed water on his body, and somebody came
running from the hotel with a fresh shirt. He dried himself, then pulled on
the shirt.
The crowd stood around, unwilling to believe the savage afternoon was spent,
but Clay Bell turned away and began to walk toward Tinker's. He wanted to get
away, to stay away, to be back on his porch with evening coming on and the
stars.
Colleen was waiting on the hotel porch and as he came up the steps she went
to him quickly. Her eyes went to a gash on his cheekbone and she started to
lift her fingers to touch his battered face.
He caught her wrist. "Your father inside?"
"Yes, but don't you think you should "
He looked past her shoulder. "Sam, send somebody for that tall piano player
from the Homestake. You can be best man."
"What about me?" Colleen put her hands on her hips. "Aren't you even going to
ask me?"
"Never ask 'em," Clay tried to smile with his swollen lips. "Tell 'em!"
"Well " Colleen hesitated.
"Inside," Clay told her, and held the door open.
Sam Tinker heaved himself to his feet. It was a good town, Tinkersville, a
good place to live.
He looked down the street. It was almost empty of men. The crowd had drifted
to the bars to talk of the fight. Down the street a cowhand leaning against an
awning post struck a match on his chaps. Somewhere a door slammed, and from
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the corner of the Tinker House Sam looked off toward Deep Creek, beyond Piety,
where those thousands of trees were still standing, breathing with the wind,
shedding their needles, and where Deep Creek still ran clear and swift over
its stones.
It was a good town, a good town. He would get the piano player himself.
About The Author
"I think of myself in the oral tradition of a troubadour, a village
taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to
be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller."
It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world recreated in
his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. Not only could he physically fill the
boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally "walked the
land my characters walk." His personal experiences as well as his lifelong
devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L'Amour the unique
knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the
American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.
Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L'Amour could trace his own family in North
America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward,
"always on the frontier." As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he
absorbed all he could about his family's frontier heritage, including the
story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.
Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L'Amour
left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs including
seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, assessment
miner, and officer on tank destroyers during World War II. During his
"yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on
the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave
Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and
worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector
of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After
developing a widespread following for his many frontier and adventure stories
written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full-length
novel,Hondo , in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 100
books is in print; there are nearly 230 million copies of his books in print
worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors in modern literary
history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than
forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and
television movies.
His hardcover bestsellers includeThe Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum (his
twelfth-century historical novel)Jubal Sackett, Last of the Breed , andThe
Haunted Mesa . His memoir,Education of a Wandering Man , was a leading
bestseller in 1989. Audio dramatizations and adaptations of many L'Amour
stories are available on cassette tapes from Bantam Audio Publishing.
The recipient of many great honors and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the
first novelist ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United
States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the
Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
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Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children,
Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour tradition forward with new books written
by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam well into the
nineties among them, four Hopalong Cassidy novels:The Rustlers of West Fork,
The Trail to Seven Pines, The Riders of High Rock, andTrouble Shooter .
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of him."
Clay Bell's head was throbbing. He walked to the water trough and ducked his
head once, then again. He splashed water on his body, and somebody came
running from the hotel with a fresh shirt. He dried himself, then pulled on
the shirt.
The crowd stood around, unwilling to believe the savage afternoon was spent,
but Clay Bell turned away and began to walk toward Tinker's. He wanted to get
away, to stay away, to be back on his porch with evening coming on and the
stars.
Colleen was waiting on the hotel porch and as he came up the steps she went
to him quickly. Her eyes went to a gash on his cheekbone and she started to
lift her fingers to touch his battered face.
He caught her wrist. "Your father inside?"
"Yes, but don't you think you should "
He looked past her shoulder. "Sam, send somebody for that tall piano player
from the Homestake. You can be best man."
"What about me?" Colleen put her hands on her hips. "Aren't you even going to
ask me?"
"Never ask 'em," Clay tried to smile with his swollen lips. "Tell 'em!"
"Well " Colleen hesitated.
"Inside," Clay told her, and held the door open.
Sam Tinker heaved himself to his feet. It was a good town, Tinkersville, a
good place to live.
He looked down the street. It was almost empty of men. The crowd had drifted
to the bars to talk of the fight. Down the street a cowhand leaning against an
awning post struck a match on his chaps. Somewhere a door slammed, and from
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the corner of the Tinker House Sam looked off toward Deep Creek, beyond Piety,
where those thousands of trees were still standing, breathing with the wind,
shedding their needles, and where Deep Creek still ran clear and swift over
its stones.
It was a good town, a good town. He would get the piano player himself.
About The Author
"I think of myself in the oral tradition of a troubadour, a village
taleteller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to
be remembered as a storyteller. A good storyteller."
It is doubtful that any author could be as at home in the world recreated in
his novels as Louis Dearborn L'Amour. Not only could he physically fill the
boots of the rugged characters he wrote about, but he literally "walked the
land my characters walk." His personal experiences as well as his lifelong
devotion to historical research combined to give Mr. L'Amour the unique
knowledge and understanding of people, events, and the challenge of the
American frontier that became the hallmarks of his popularity.
Of French-Irish descent, Mr. L'Amour could trace his own family in North
America back to the early 1600s and follow their steady progression westward,
"always on the frontier." As a boy growing up in Jamestown, North Dakota, he
absorbed all he could about his family's frontier heritage, including the
story of his great-grandfather who was scalped by Sioux warriors.
Spurred by an eager curiosity and desire to broaden his horizons, Mr. L'Amour
left home at the age of fifteen and enjoyed a wide variety of jobs including
seaman, lumberjack, elephant handler, skinner of dead cattle, assessment
miner, and officer on tank destroyers during World War II. During his
"yondering" days he also circled the world on a freighter, sailed a dhow on
the Red Sea, was shipwrecked in the West Indies and stranded in the Mojave
Desert. He won fifty-one of fifty-nine fights as a professional boxer and
worked as a journalist and lecturer. He was a voracious reader and collector
of rare books. His personal library contained 17,000 volumes.
Mr. L'Amour "wanted to write almost from the time I could talk." After
developing a widespread following for his many frontier and adventure stories
written for fiction magazines, Mr. L'Amour published his first full-length
novel,Hondo , in the United States in 1953. Every one of his more than 100
books is in print; there are nearly 230 million copies of his books in print
worldwide, making him one of the best-selling authors in modern literary
history. His books have been translated into twenty languages, and more than
forty-five of his novels and stories have been made into feature films and
television movies.
His hardcover bestsellers includeThe Lonesome Gods, The Walking Drum (his
twelfth-century historical novel)Jubal Sackett, Last of the Breed , andThe
Haunted Mesa . His memoir,Education of a Wandering Man , was a leading
bestseller in 1989. Audio dramatizations and adaptations of many L'Amour
stories are available on cassette tapes from Bantam Audio Publishing.
The recipient of many great honors and awards, in 1983 Mr. L'Amour became the
first novelist ever to be awarded the Congressional Gold Medal by the United
States Congress in honor of his life's work. In 1984 he was also awarded the
Medal of Freedom by President Reagan.
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Louis L'Amour died on June 10, 1988. His wife, Kathy, and their two children,
Beau and Angelique, carry the L'Amour tradition forward with new books written
by the author during his lifetime to be published by Bantam well into the
nineties among them, four Hopalong Cassidy novels:The Rustlers of West Fork,
The Trail to Seven Pines, The Riders of High Rock, andTrouble Shooter .
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[06 May 2002] (v1.0) Proofed and formatted by NickL
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