The Rider of the Ruby Hills: Stories [Paperback]

A WORD FROM LOUIS L’AMOUR
 
“Almost four decades ago, when my fiction was being published exclusively in ‘pulp’ western magazines, I wrote a number of novel-length stories, known back then as ‘magazine novels.’ In creating them, I lived with my characters so closely that their lives were still as much a part of me as I was of them long after the issues in which they appeared went out of print. Proud as I was of how I presented the characters and their adventures in the pages of the magazines, I wanted to tell the reader more about my people and why they did what they did. So, over the years, I revised and expanded these magazine works into novels that I published as full-length paperbacks under different titles.
 
“These particular early magazine versions of my books have long been a source of considerable speculation and curiosity among many of my readers, so much so of late, that now I’ve decided to bring four of my ‘magazine novels’ back into print in this latest volume of my short fiction.
 
“I hope you enjoy them.”
 
FEATURING
• Showdown Trail
• A Man Called Trent
• The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon
• The Rider of the Ruby Hills

Our foremost storyteller of the American West,Louis L’Amourhas thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.AUTHOR’S NOTE
 
THE RIDER OF THE RUBY HILLS
 
OFTEN THE MOST beautiful parts of western states are only to be found far from highways; a casual traveler can pass through, say, Arizona or Nevada, without being able to see much of what the areas have to offer. For example, in Arizona the great pine forests of the White Mountain area, their running, rushing streams and wild game, lie hidden away from ml£3