The Empty Land, Louis LAmour
The Empty Land, Louis LAmour
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The Empty Land

Author: Louis L'Amour

Narrator: Edward Herrmann

Unabridged: 5 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/11/2011

Synopsis

For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight.

In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn can’t afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move could be their last.

About The Author

Louis L'Amour, truly America's favorite storyteller, was the first fiction writer ever to receive the Congressional Gold Medal from the United States Congress in honor of his life's work, and was also awarded the Medal of Freedom. There are more than 265 million copies of his books in print worldwide.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry

Boot Hill synonymous with the Old West, death strikes quick and not respectable men inherit a hole in the ground some even receive an epitaph... My favorite is "Here lies Lester Moore four slugs from a 44, no Les no more" on his tombstone. This is a roundabout way of introducing one of Louis L'Amour......more

Goodreads review by John

A great story. Matt Coburn is your quintessential Western. He cleans up towns with outlaws and lowlifes. Confusion is a town on the edge. Gold has been discovered and the vultures are circling. Matt also has two woman he must decide between. Laura a rancher with a view on killings and Madge who like......more

Goodreads review by Kelley

This was one great read! L’Amour‘s, The Empty Land, was about the birth of a mining boom town, and the good and bad people who populated it during its first weeks of existence. Historically in the west, times were definitely tough. Many good and honest people worked those new towns, but there were t......more

Goodreads review by Kris

This book has given me a crisis of identity. I'm no longer sure that I don't like westerns. Though, I think perhaps I just really like Louis L'Amour’s writing. The opening passage of “The Empty Land” is captivating and makes some bold claims about a coyote that would have been harder for a lesser wr......more

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