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The Quick and the Dead

by Louis L’Amour

First published 1973

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Set in the settlement frontier of the late nineteenth-century West, A family heading west discovers that survival depends on a hardened stranger whose experience with violence may be the only protection against men who see isolated settlers as easy prey.

Against the historical background of Old West and Frontier America, 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.

Historical Periods

Old West and Frontier America1803–1912 CE

Genres

Exploration & Survival Fiction Western & Frontier Fiction

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