{"product_id":"shalako-louis-lamours-lost-treasures-isbn-9780525486329","title":"Shalako (Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures)","description":"\u003cb\u003eAs part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e He was a white man as cunning as any Indian, a brooding man who trusted in nothing but his weapon and his horse. Shalako was determined to cross the bleak Sonoran Desert—the Apaches’ killing ground—by himself. But then he came across a European hunting party, and a brave and beautiful woman, stranded and defenseless. Shalako knew that he had to stay and help them survive. For somewhere out there was a deadly Apache warrior . . . and he had the worst kind of death in mind for them all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLouis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn\u003ci\u003e Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1,\u003c\/i\u003e Beau L’Amour takes the reader on a guided tour through many of the finished and unfinished short stories, novels, and treatments that his father was never able to publish during his lifetime. L’Amour’s never-before-seen first novel, \u003ci\u003eNo Traveller Returns,\u003c\/i\u003e faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by \u003ci\u003eLouis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAdditionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts. These postscripts tell the story behind the stories that millions of readers have come to know and cherish.\u003c\/b\u003eOur foremost storyteller of the American West, \u003cb\u003eLouis L’Amour \u003c\/b\u003ehas 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.For seven days in the spring of 1882 the man called Shalako heard no sound but the wind . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo sound but the wind, the creak of his saddle, the hoofbeats of his horse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeven days riding the ghost trails up out of Sonora, down from the Sierra Madre, through Apache country, keeping off the skylines, and watching the beckoning fingers of the talking smoke. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLean as a famine wolf but wide and thick in the shoulder, the man called Shalako was a brooding man, a wary man, a man who trusted to no fate, no predicted destiny, nor to any luck. He trusted to nothing but his weapons, his horse, and the caution with which he rode. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis hard-boned face was tanned to saddle leather under the beat-up, black, flat-crowned hat. He wore fringed shotgun chaps, a faded red shirt, a black handkerchief knotted about his throat, and a dozen scars of knife and bullet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a baked and brutal land, this Sonora, sunblistered and arid, yet as he sifted his way through the stands of organ-pipe cactus, prickly pear and cat’s claw, he knew the desert throbbed with its own strange life, and he knew those slim fingers of lifting smoke beckoned death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe was a lone-riding man in a lonesome country, riding toward a destiny of which he knew nothing, a manwho for ten long years had known no other life than this, nor wished for any other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What else there was he had known before, but now he lived from day to day, watching the lonely sunsets flame and die, bleeding their crimson shadows against the long, serrated ridges. Watching the dawns come, seeing the mornings stir with their first life . . . and the land he rode was a land where each living thing lived by the death of some other thing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor the desert holds no easy deaths . . . hard, bitter, and ugly are the desert deaths . . . and long drawn out. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMerciless were the raw-backed mountains, dreadfully desolate the canyons, the white-faced ancient lakes were dust . . . traps where a man might die, choking horribly upon alkali or the ashen powder of ancient rocks. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor seven days Shalako heard no sound but that of his own passage, and then a gunshot bought space in the silence, a harsh whiplash of sound, followed after an instant by the shattering volley of at least four rifles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rifles spoke again from the sounding board of the rocks, racketing away down the canyons to fade at the desert’s rim. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMotionless upon a sun-baked slope, he waited while the sweat found thin furrows through the dust on his cheeks, but there was no further sound, no further shot, nor was there movement within the range of his vision . . . merely the lazy circle of a buzzard against the heatblurred sky. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf they had not seen him already they would not see him if he remained still, and Shalako had learned his patience in a hard school. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMovement attracts the eye, draws the attention, renders visible. A motionless object that blends with the surroundings can long remain invisible even when close by, and Shalako was not moving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout him lay vast, immeasurable distances, pastel shadings of salmon, pink, and lemon broken by the deeper reds of rock or the darkness of cliff shadow. Overhead the sun was lost in a copper sky above the heatwaved reaches where all sharpness of outline melted in the shimmering movement of the air. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe innocent distance that lay before him was broken by hollows, canyons, folded hills, but it seemed an even, unbroken expanse from where he sat. There were cholla forests out there, scatterings of lava . . . a land where anything might be and something obviously was. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe notch in the hills toward which he was pointing held a pass through the mountains, and within the pass lay a water hole. His canteen was half-full and if necessity demanded it could be made to last another three days . . . it had done so before. In the desert a man learns to use water sparingly and to make a little cover a lot of distance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe roan gelding was a mountain-bred horse and could survive on cholla or prickly pear if the spines were burned away, but water and grass lay within that opening in the hills, and Shalako had no intention of skirting the mountain unless circumstances insisted. Yet the sound of shots had come from that direction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter a while he made, with sparing movements, a cigarette, his eyes holding on the far, blue mountains briefly, then surveying the country while he worked with the small, essential movements. He considered the possibilities, knowing that a desert offers less freedom of movement than at first seems likely. All travel in the desert, of man or animal, is governed by the need for water. 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