Bendigo Shafter (Louis LAmours Lost Treasures): A Novel

Author : Greg Bear


15 AED

At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken the settlers battle harsh winters renegade opportunists and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to New York to reclaim the love of Ninon his childhood sweetheart Bendigo is faced with new challenges. Will hard-edged instincts honed from years in the mountains serve him in the big city? Does Ninon’s heart belong to the lights and glamour of the theater? And if his destiny deems it so will he be willing to leave the community he toiled so long and hard to build?

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 will also be released as a Lost Treasures publication 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Additionally many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material including outlines plot notes and alternate drafts.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.


At what point does a group of strangers become a community? When young Bendigo Shafter and a ragtag bunch of travelers settle in the rugged Wyoming mountains they quickly come to depend on a toughness and wisdom many of them never knew they possessed. Led by the beautiful and resourceful widow Ruth Macken the settlers battle harsh winters renegade opportunists and the destructive lure of gold. Through these brutally demanding experiences young Bendigo is forged into a man. But when he travels to New York to reclaim the love of Ninon his childhood sweetheart Bendigo is faced with new challenges. Will hard-edged instincts honed from years in the mountains serve him in the big city? Does Ninon’s heart belong to the lights and glamour of the theater? And if his destiny deems it so will he be willing to leave the community he toiled so long and hard to build?

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 will also be released as a Lost Treasures publication 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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