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The Rider of Lost Creek (1982)

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0553257714 (ISBN13: 9780553257717)
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The Rider Of Lost Creek (1982) - Plot & Excerpts

I used to read L'Amour whenever we went to the beach for Easter. He was light, fast and whenever one of his heroes was trapped in the desert heat without water being pursued by Apaches, I felt better able to empathize while sitting in a deck chair under the hot Alabama sun, having to stretch almost beyond my reach for a cool beer.Anyway, since I faced a hospital stay, I wanted something light, and read The Rider of Lost Creek. Unfortunately, in this book L'Amour tries to create a Western Mystery, and the mystery element was so superficial that it almost outweighed the western's simpler pleasures.There is a strong male character here, who rides into town and changes everything, so that's ok, and there are some classic mano et mano confrontations, but this is a lesser effort. One of his best is Hondo, and that may have been his first published. It is also a great movie, with a great swimming lesson.You might do better to start with Hondo, or almost any other L'Amour.

All three Kilkenny westerns are my favorite, but the first one is still The Best and one of the very best western novels ever! Aside for the Sacketts, Lance Kilkenny is my most favorite Hero of Wild West. He perfectly embodies the "Lone Drifter Gunfighter" persona in the books that Clint Eastwood so wonderfully immortalized in films. But Kilkenny is not "The Man With No Name", because he's not just an anchorless, mysterious tough guy...He has ties, he has a past, he has friends who'll get his help whenever is needed, and most of all, even if in the end he's still a lone drifter who just couldn't ignore the call of the wild, a beautiful wonderful woman loves him and waits for him, and someday somewhere, he'll return to that woman to repay her love. Yeah, I'm just a hopeless romantic, and freaking LOVE the relation of Kilkenny-Nita Riordan!

What do You think about The Rider Of Lost Creek (1982)?

Kilkenny is not a man who forgets favors. So when Mort Davis, a man who saved his life, asks for Kilkenny’s help, he responds immediately. What he finds when he arrives at Davis’s ranch is perplexing.Webb Steele and Chet Lord tower over the valley with their huge ranches. They are determined to squelch Mort Davis – seem to be under the impression that he is a malicious squatter and perpetrator of annoyances. But Kilkenny divines that Steele and Lord are not the main players in this game; they are but pawns being controlled by a stronger and more deadly brain.But whose is it? And why does he want Davis – and Kilkenny – dead?Click on the link below read the rest of my review! http://blitheringbookster.com/home/20...
—Laura Verret

Very entertaining and relaxing book. The character are well defined add the plot has a great flow.Lance is the fastest gun but he is trying to pacify the two ranges that are in quarrel with their neighbor for putting up fences. He soon found out it was not about wire but about power. There was a gun battle and he was hit but he recuperated weeks later and rode back into the hills singing a song; I have a word to speak, boys only one to say, Don't never be no cow thief, don't never ride no stray, Be careful of your rope, boys and keep it on the tree, But suit yourself about it, for its nothing at all to me.
—Leo

This L'Amour book was different in that it didn't end happily ever after. In fact, it didn't really end. It left it open for a sequel, which is out of the norm for him. But I have to say that it makes me happy that he didn't always do what his readers expected.Kilkenny is a loner. He had some education in the East but prefers life out west. No one knows where he's from or anything about his family. All they know is the stories they've heard about his gunslinging. And those are legendary enough to make men doubt them. When he shows up to help a friend avert a range war over barbed wire fences, he takes everyone by surprise with his unique approach. Kilkenny ends up on top, of course, but his adventures are far from over.
—Mandi Ellsworth

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