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Rivers West
First published 1975
Set in the early nineteenth-century Mississippi and Missouri frontier, Shipbuilder Jean Talon travels west into a world of river commerce, fur trade, settlement and political intrigue, carrying skills and ambitions shaped by the Atlantic world.
Against the historical background of Early Missouri Frontier and Fur Trade, L’Amour builds the story around distance, terrain, travel and survival. His characters survive by reading landscape and people carefully, and the action is grounded in the practical realities of travel, work, weapons, distance and local authority.
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