Dead Ringer, Louis LAmour
Dead Ringer, Louis LAmour
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Dead Ringer
A Western Trio

Author: Louis L’Amour

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 6 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

A trio of Western stories by Louis L’AmourIn “Black Rock,” Jim Gatlin, a Texas trail driver, arrives in the town of Tucker where he finds himself quickly drawn into the middle of an all-out battle for the XY Ranch when, due to a case of mistaken identity, he kills the segundo of Wing Cary’s Flying C Ranch. Gatlin is a dead-ringer for Jim Walker, who, like Cary, wants control of the XY. Gatlin is thrown into a situation in which all he can do but fight for his life.Seventeen-year-old Shandy Gamble in “Gamble of the KT” is in Perigord with plans to buy a new saddle and bridle with the $500 in reward money he had received for catching two horse thieves, but instead he gets conned out of the money. He returns to the KT Ranch never mentioning what happened. But when he learns the con man is back and hanging out with the June gang, he decides it’s time to get his money back and even the score.Always a fighting man, both for the US Army and in battles across the ocean, Tom Kedrick in “Showdown Trail” has been hired to help run off the squatters and outlaws occupying a strip of land claimed to be unusable swamp. When he learns that he is being misled by his new bosses and that the squatters are honest and hardworking settlers, including one of his father’s old friends, he has to determine which side he will fight for.Louis L’Amour is the most decorated author in the history of American letters, and his stories are loved the world over.

About Louis L’Amour

Louis L’Amour (1908–1988) was an American author whose Western stories are loved the world over. Born in Jamestown, North Dakota, he was the most decorated author in the history of American letters. In 1982 he was the first American author ever to be awarded a Special National Gold Medal by the United States Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 President Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation. He was also a recipient of the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award.

About Lloyd James

Lloyd James (a.k.a. Sean Pratt) has been a working professional actor in theater, film, television, and voice-overs for more than thirty years. He has narrated over one thousand audiobooks and won numerous Earphones Awards and nominations for the Audie Award and the Voice Arts Award. He holds a BFA degree in acting from Santa Fe University, New Mexico. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on February 19, 2011

*** "Showdown Trail" by Louis L'Amour was later expanded to The Tall Stranger, and begins with "The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon", later reworked into Son of a Wanted Man. Both tales have brave foster sons of men, large of body and spirit, who trail cowardly villains that kidnap girls too silly for......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on April 20, 2018

I received the audiobook free in exchange for an honest review. One thing I love about L'Amour's work is the poetry of his words, his love of nature and the country, and of the history of the country/world. This story does not disappoint. Rock Bannon joins a wagon train heading for California. He had......more

Goodreads review by Steve on November 26, 2011

The book contains two novellas originally published in magazines by L'Amour. They were later expanded into novels. Typical stories by the famous Western authors of lone men dealing with situations and the women with whom they fall in love. "The Trail to Peach Tree Canyon" was published with addtional......more

Goodreads review by Lindy on March 12, 2025

The end is a little drawn out but the match trick is a nice touch......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 11, 2024

This is a novella that feels a touch formulaic but Louis L'Amour is a natural storyteller and it is nevertheless an entertaining read. Rock Bannon, the tall quiet hero has killed but always in self defence. At the beginning of the novella he is picked up by a wagon train heading west, his recent wou......more


Quotes

“L’Amour’s characters distinguish themselves from run-of-the-mill westerners by the hard thud of their boots on soil and the worn leather ease of their dialogue. Awesome immediacy, biting as creosote slapped on a fencepost.” Kirkus Reviews, praise for the author