"L'Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often
with a desert heatwave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller....for reading under
the stars."Kirkus Reviews

"L'Amour is the kind of storyteller who makes the wolves come out of the woods to listen."People

"A strong case can be made that L'Amour was the most popular American writer of the 20th century.His
books embody heroic virtues that seem to matter now more than ever."Wall Street Journal

Lance Kilkenny's gun is believed to be the fastest in the West, but once the gunfight is over, he disappears.
Most folks don't even know what he looks like. Some time back, Mort Davis saved Kilkenny's life after he was
shot up. Now Davis needs Kilkenny's help. He has filed a claim on a water hole near Lost Creek in the live
oak country. The district is dominated by two wealthy cattlemen, Webb Steele and Chet Lord, each one
desiring for himself the water hole that Davis claims. Beautiful Nita Riordan owns the local saloon, and
between her charms and the feuding ranchers, Lance Kilkenny has his work cut out for him.

Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), born in Jamestown, North Dakota, began his career as a writer in the 1940s and became a best-selling author of more than one hundred books that were authentic portrayals of frontier life. More than thirty of his books formed the basis of films. In 1983, he was awarded a National Gold Medal by the U.S. Congress for lifetime literary achievement, and in 1984 he received the Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation.

Austin native Jim Gough's distinctive voice is well known in the Southwest through his hundreds of commercials and radio shows. He has also appeared in feature films including Urban Cowboy, Places in the Heart, and JFK. When not entertaining folks with his western swing band, The Cosmopolitan Cowboys, Jim is recording audiobooks and writing.