Hondo
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As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials! He was etched by the desert’s howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor. Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures is a project created to release some of the author’s more unconventional manuscripts from the family archives. In Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volumes 1, 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, No Traveller Returns, faithfully completed for this program, is a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. These exciting publications will be followed by Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures: Volume 2. Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts.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.
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Hondo by Louis l'Amour revolves around a soldier set in the 1870s who must come to terms with his place in the dusty, violent, and sun-soaked Wild West.
If your idea of a good time involves spurs, bar-brawls, high-noon fights, Apache politics, and taming bucking mustangs, this book is for you.
But wait! It's not just a testosterone-filled Stetson tipping, six-gun flinging tumble on the frontier. It has a genuine love-at-first-sight sideline. Hondo stumbles across a prairie owner named Angie. Can a young widow and her son warm the heart of the stoic, half white man, half Apache?
It's a rootin' tootin' good time!
You're probably wondering if Hon-do or Hon-don't stay with Angie and Johnny. Well, not at first; she might be married and waiting for her husband to return. Plus, he has some unfinished business to attend to.
So, while Hondo is away, the Apaches want to set up an arranged marriage or pairing because they believe Johnny should not grow up without the requisite “man” skills. I.e. Horse taming, fighting, scalping, etc.
Will Hondo find out what happened to Angie's husband? Will Hondo return to help Angie? Will the battle for land be resolved?
Thoughts: Howdy! If you made it this far, welcome, friend.
I really wasn't thinking of myself as the target audience for a L'amour novel, but a friend of mine kept insisting I had to try this book out and I'm glad I did. The vivid imagery of the Western scenery is probably my favorite thing about the book, because it was so easy to picture it all. It's hard to top this review of the book, so I'm just saying ditto and giving a link...
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