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The Tall Stranger
First published 1957
Set in the era of overland migration to the American West, Rock Bannon scouts for a wagon train and becomes suspicious of a persuasive stranger encouraging settlers toward a destination that may serve the stranger’s interests rather than their own.
Against the historical background of Oregon Trail Migration, 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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