Guns Of The Timberlands: A Novel (1984) - Plot & Excerpts
Spending the last 6 years to make his ranch the best, Clay Bell fought Indians, rustlers and the wilderness. On the other hand, Jud Devitt wants to remove timber off of the land where Clay lets cattle graze to deliver railroad ties for the Mexicans. Depleting these woods would cause mudslides which will take out their homes. For several years Clay had protected these woods and not let anyone disturb them. While the ranchers and loggers begin arguing, Devitt's fiance finds different plans. She doesn't like Jud's actions and falls for Clay. Finally, the loggers start to realize that they are wrong after Devitt's fiance is almost killed. The lead logger is the most bull headed and keeps fighting until he is shot and killed. Louis is a very good author, when he writes his books he likes to use a lot of suspense and violence. These word choices help kids in today’s date of how the past was during the western times and people had guns battles. I like how Louis writes his books he is very detailed at his work and he can show the different times how people reacted to situations and that some are life taking. I would recommend this book to all the readers that like action adventure novels this is perfect on how it goes form conflicts in the town to out in the woods where the cutting logs takes place. This book is a very easy going book, if you know a little bit about history and how stuff is dealt with in the past this book is another story of the past, very distinguished book. I would read another one of Louis’s book.
This was the first Western I have read and I think I am hooked. In this story, a cattle rancher depends on grazing his stock in and around a stand of timber on public lands in the desert of the Southwest. A rich businessman comes into town and announces he will harvest the timberland to aid in the expansion of a local railroad company. An all-or-nothing battle ensues for the lumber and the survival of the B-bar ranch. The story is fast moving, trimmed down to its essentials. Though efficient, there are secrets and twists that I did not see coming that I was pleasantly surprised by. Louis L'Amour uses amazing descriptions of the sights, sounds, and smells that instantly pulled me into his Western world. It was a little difficult to understand the layout of the land especially in terms of how it was used in battle tactics. I found a Loius L'Amour web site that helped in this regard:http://www.louislamour.com/Maps/map_t...
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One of three books published by L'Amour in 1955 and the next one in my list and quest to read the Louis L'Amour books in publishing order per the official Louis L'Amour website.Guns of the Timberlands finds local rancher and good guy Clay Bell up against a ruthless timber baron, Judd Devitt, who wants to run Clay off his land in order to harvest the timber for a cool profit. Clay of course is having none of it and vicious battle ensues between the two. Devitt of course is engaged to marry the local beauty who begins to have second thoughts upon laying eyes on Clay and seeing he is the real good guy in the conflict.
—Paul
