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The Iron Marshal
First published 1979
Set in the railroad-expansion era of the late nineteenth-century West, A man with a violent past takes a job connected to the railroad and is forced to decide whether authority can become a path toward a different life.
Against the historical background of Railroad Expansion in the American West, L’Amour builds the story around suspicion, investigation, violence and the fragile reach of frontier law. 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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