| Last Stand at Papago Wells Contributor(s): L'Amour, Louis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0553258079 ISBN-13: 9780553258073 Publisher: Bantam OUR PRICE: $6.29 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: Logan Cates knew the many ways the Arizona desert could kill a man. He had ridden the sunblasted dunes, tracked the Apache over barren lava beds, sheltered in the dry washes of this forbidding land. Above all, he knew a man needed water to survive. Cates rode to Papago Wells a few miles ahead of an Apache war party led by the vicious Churupati. There he met a dozen desert wanderers whom chance had led to the only water between Yuma and hell. There they came under siege by the Indians. And there they would make their stand--with little hope of living beyond the next day and only a hard man named Logan Cates to show them how to conquer their true enemy: fear. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 900 |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 4.15" W x 6.87" (0.21 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: It was the only water for miles in a vast, sun-blasted desert where water meant survival. So Logan Cates naturally headed for Papago Wells. But he wasn't the only one. Fleeing the fierce Churupati and his Apache warriors, other travelers had come there too. And when the Apaches found them, they began a siege as relentless and unforgiving as the barren land...and just as inescapable. The last thing Cates wanted was to be responsible for the lives of thirteen desperate strangers and a shipment of gold. But he knew that if they were to survive, he was their last chance. He also knew that some in the party were willing to die--or kill--to get their hands on the money. If he couldn't get them to work together, it wouldn't be the desert or even the Apaches that would do them in--it would be the greed of the very people he was trying to save. |