As part of the Louis L’Amour’s Lost Treasures series, this edition contains exclusive bonus materials!Everyone was dead. Indian raiders massacred the entire wagon train. Only seven-year-old Hardy Collins and three-year-old Betty Sue Powell, managed to survive. With a knife, a faithful stallion, and the survival lessons his father taught him, Hardy must face the challenges of the open prairie as … open prairie as they head west in search of help. Using ingenuity and common sense, Hardy builds shelters, forages for food, and learns to care for Betty Sue. But their journey through this hostile wilderness is being tracked by even more hostile men. And, as he struggles to keep them alive, Hardy realizes that their survival may depend on his ability to go far beyond what his father had been able to teach him.
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Additionally, many beloved classics will be rereleased with an exclusive Lost Treasures postscript featuring previously unpublished material, including outlines, plot notes, and alternate drafts.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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Gotta love Louis Lamour! Great story! Descriptions situations are so good! Makes you feel !Ike you’re right there! His characters are so believable you’ll swear you know them! Haven’t read a bad Lamour book yet!
You cant go wrong reading Down the Long Hills. All of these book are good reads.
Great book read when I was younger looking forward to reading it again
Great story. Authentic tale of the old west, full of telling details of a survival ordeal of two very young children. The ingenuity of the young protagonist in beating the odds rings true. You’re in the hands of a master storyteller who doesn’t waste a single word. Completely absorbing fun read.
Interesting chronology of events. Almost predictable very entertaining characters surviving a unique situation. It really makes you think about what kind of choices you would have had to make if you had been on a wagon trail.
A young boy is coming west with a wagon train to meet his pa at Ft. Bridger. A Cheyenne raid leaves the young boy with a three-year old girl, no supplies, and winter setting in. All he has is a big red horse and the wilderness knowledge he learned from his pa. A perilous journey begins…
Down the Long Hills is not a typical western frontier story because the main character isn’t even in double digits yet. It’s Survivor- western frontier style. Hardy Collins steals the listener’s heart as this sober young guy tenderly looks after a girl who just lost her folks even while fearful with the knowledge that they are all alone in the middle of no where and in the middle of rough country with dangers on all sides. He’s scared to death, but just keeps on plugging along. Beyond his efforts to keep them alive, they are being trailed by more than one person after Big Red the magnificent stallion that belongs to Hardy’s pa, Scott Collins.
The narration is split between Hardy and Scott as son journeys to find his pa and pa leaves out from Ft. Bridger to find his son hoping he survived the raid on the wagon train and can hold out until Scott gets there with his mountain men buddies.
Now, did I have several moments when I kept thinking Hardy was older because of how he thought about things and the canny way he went about keeping himself and Betty Sue alive? Yes, its highly improbable. But, I didn’t care. I swallowed the story whole and loved what I was getting.
The setting is Wyoming in the late 1840’s just before gold was discovered in California and the frontier began much further east. I love how this author can paint in a historical setting and yarn about the times like he was there.
The narrator, Michael Crouch, is already a favorite. He did great for Hardy’s young voice and even Betty Sue’s. He has a way of getting a reader to settle in and lose themselves in his storytelling.
All in all, this was a fabulous western adventure from a favorite author and narrator. I can highly recommend it for those who want an exciting western adventure that isn’t your typical shoot ’em up.
Zane Grey is another author of old where there is no question but to read every book with his name on it, without hesitation.
Unusual story for a western. Two children were in rugged mountains struggling for their lives against Indians, outlaws, wolves and winter coming. Boy was able to care for younger girl and protect her using knowledge he’d learned from his dad. Excellent story!
It’s Louis l’moure and it’s a western. I felt like I just couldn’t get into any of the characters. The characters weren’t really developed much. The story was like the retelling of just about any of his books.
Great story and characters. If you like survival stories, you’ll like this book!
Great and entertaining
I loved this book! I thought about the characters all day long and couldn’t wait to start reading again at end of work day. Great story!
Very familiar format, entertaining and while predictable, a good read.
I have read all of L,lamour books and this one will not disappoint you
First book of this type for me….will read more.
Lamour is always a good read. A little unusual because the main characters are kids.
What can you say about this author? He is the gold-standard of western novels. The story is adventure on the hoof with the smell of gunfire in the air.
I read this once a long time ago. I liked it then. I appreciate it now. Louis writing is truly timeless.
light reading but enjoyable. easy to follow. can put it down and pick it up where left off with no lapse in action.
Well written and enjoyable