| Showdown on the Hogback Lib/E Library Edition Contributor(s): L'Amour, Louis (Author), Gardner, Grover (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0786182881 ISBN-13: 9780786182886 Publisher: Blackstone Western OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: They hired Tom Kedrick to clear the land of "vagrants and outlaws," but what he found was hard-working ranchers determined to resist any efforts to disenfranchise them. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.84" W x 6.5" (0.47 lbs) |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tom Kedrick is hired by a financial syndicate to run off a gang of vagrants and outlaws who are occupying a sizable strip of land that the syndicate has filed, claiming it is unusable swamp. To Kedrick's dismay, these "vagrants and outlaws" turn out to be hard working ranchers and farmers who have improved the lands they have claimed and are determined to resist any effort to disenfranchise them. When Kendrick confronts his employers, he is soon caught between a rock and a hard place--marked for death by both the syndicate's killers and the suspicious farmers. Was ever a gunfighter in a worse predicament? |
Contributor Bio(s): L'Amour, Louis: - Louis L'Amour (1908-1988) was an American author whose Western stories are loved the world over. Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, he was the most decorated author in the history of American letters. In 1982 he was the first American author ever to be awarded a Special National Gold Medal by the United States Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation. He was also a recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award. Gardner, Grover: -Grover Gardner is an award-winning narrator with over eight hundred titles to his credit. Named one of the Best Voices of the Century and a Golden Voice by AudioFile magazine, he has won three prestigious Audie Awards, was chosen Narrator of the Year for 2005 by Publishers Weekly, and has earned more than thirty Earphones Awards. |