L'Amour, Louis - the Riders of High Rock

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IN I .S. IN CANADA $23.95 High upon the ridge, Pod Griffin wiped the sweat from his hands and took a new grip on the rifle. Hopalong Cassidy was less than four hundred yards away and coming nearer. Pod Griffin lifted the rifle and cradled the heavy butt against his shoulder. He took a deep breath, put the sights on Hopalong’s temple, held his breath, then fired! Hopalong slumped suddenly, then slid from the saddle and fell into the sand… Hopalong Cassidy is one of frontier fiction’s most popular, enduring, and memorable figures. His exploits in books, in movies, and on television have made him one of the great heroes of the American West. Louis L’Amour’s magnificent lifework has earned this beloved author a permanent place as the West’s foremost storyteller. Now Hopalong Cassidy and Louis L’Amour are together again. In this, the third of four Cassidy novels written by L’Amour, the legendary saddleman rides straight into an ambush in the West’s untamed territories. The Riders of High Rock Hopalong rode into the cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead. Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he’s sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt’s about to learn that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy, you better make sure he never gets up. When Hopalong Cassidy creator Clarence E. Mulford retired, he chose the young Louis L’Amour to carry on the Hopalong tradition in four unforgettable novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Rustlers of West Fork and The

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