Wednesday, February 13, 2008

THE CHEROKEE TRAIL by Louis L'Amour


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While Mary Bredon and her husband survived the Civil War, their Virginia home did not fare so well. Hoping to start fresh and eventually return to restore their plantation, they travel west to a job as stationmaster at a stagecoach stop on the Cherokee Trail in Colorado. Nearing their new home the couple encounters the opportunistic raider who had looted and burned their Virginia Plantation. Fearing public exposure of his deed, the raider murders Mary's husband.

Mary, needing the means to support herself and her daughter, claims her husband's job. Despite opposition from her boss, from the man she is replacing, from the Indians and from her husband's murderer. Mary becomes the stationmaster. She is helped by the Irish girl and the orphan boy she hires, as well as by mysterious stranger Temple Boone. Both men and somen will enjoy this.

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