Showdown at Yellow Butte: A Novel

In this early novel by Louis L'Amour we find a traditional western--Alton Burwick is trying to steal all of the land by driving homesteaders from the range, and he hires Tom Kedrick to lead the bunch of killers. But when Kedrick finds out he is to kill innocent men and women he balks at the job. There-in lies the basis for the book. This one was first published under the Jim Mayo pseudonym . A book of quick action and gunsmoke.

We have collected all L'Amours books and when we realized we'd bought them at least three times each, we stopped passing them on and started keeping them. They are full of frontier wisdom, patriotism, and hard fighting. That said, it is not one of his best, and is somewhat predictable. But that doesn't make it less enjoyable.

This is one of the early books written by Louis L'Amour, dating from a 1953 ACE paperback book released under the 'Jim Mayo' name he was using at the time. While the manuscript was first published as a short story under the title "Showdown On The Hogback". The story is pretty straight forward with a man, Tom Kedrick, being hired in New Orleans by an organization named Burwick, Keith, and Gunter, trying to gain money from the government by evicting the "squatters, outlaws, renegades, and wasters", from certain lands in the area of Mustang and Yellow Butte. Kedrick quickly finds out in the town of Yellow Butte that the people on the land have been there some as long as ten years with many others at least a couple years. They are honest, hardworking people and they are about to be swindled by the Burwick, Keith, and Gunter 'land combine'. Also, the organization is aware, as the settlers are not, that all this land will soon be set aside by the U.S. Government as a preserve and reservation as areas for the Navajho and Ute Indian tribes. Now that Tom Kendrick realizes what is about to happen he finds himself smack-dab in the middle of a shooting war with lead throwing gunhands on each side. Through the pages that follow events transpire quickly leading to a final, deadly showdown at Yellow Butte. An early story from the pen of Louis L'Amour from the days of pulp westerns and later as a best selling ACE and Bantam softcover western. Semper Fi.

JUST LOVED THIS BOOK , MR LAMOUR LETS US DELVE INTO THE MIND OF HIRED GUNS AND THE DECISIONS THEY HAD TO MAKE. ALSO THERE IS A BIT OF MYSTERY IN THE STORY LINE. IN FACT IT HAS EVERY INGREDIENT ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, ACTION AND TRAGEDY WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK. READ IT AND ENJOY