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The Empty Land

by Louis L’Amour

First published 1969

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Set in the late nineteenth-century western mining frontier, The Empty Land is a novel built around the pressures of its historical setting. For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight. In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside.

Historical Periods

Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE

Genres

Historical Sagas Western & Frontier Fiction

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