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Last Stand at Papago Wells
First published 1957
Set in the Apache-conflict era of the nineteenth-century Southwest, A small, mismatched group becomes trapped at a desert water hole while hostile forces close in, forcing strangers with competing motives to cooperate if they are to survive.
Against the historical background of Apache Wars and Chiricahua Resistance, 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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