01902cam a2200325 i 4500 371330092 TxAuBib 20190301120000.0 100119t20081973||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780553280845 pbk. $4.99 0553280848 pbk. $4.99 TxAuBib rda L'AMOUR, LOUIS. The quick and the dead [BOOK] / Louis L'Amour. Bantam reissue. New York : Bantam Dell, 2008. ©1973. 184 p. : map ; 18 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Bantam book."--T.p. verso. Bantam ed. published November 1973; Rev. Bantam ed. / July 1979; Bantam reissue / June 1994; Bantam reissue / April 2002; Bantam reissue / January 2006; Bantam reissue / September 2008. When Duncan McKaskel decided to move his family west, he knew he would face dangers, and he was prepared for them. He knew about the exhausting terrain, and he was expecting the punishing elements. What he worried about was having to use vilence against other men--men who would follow him and try to steal the riches that he didn't even possess. Yet bandits were only part of McKaskel's worries. For a mysterious stranger, Con Vallian, had appeared one night and saved his life. But was Vallian's true interest Duncan's wife, Susanna? And, more important, how did she feel about him? As they push on into the wilderness, Duncan must discover who is the greater threat--the thieves outside his camp or the enigmatic stranger within.... 20190301. cat 20100209 cjk. Frontier and pioneer life Fiction. Overland journeys to the Pacific Fiction. Western fiction.