Lost Trails

Louis L'Amour · Elmer Kelton · Loren Estelman · William W. Johnstone

Apr 2010 · Pinnacle Books

About this eBook

They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won.
Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, William W. Johnstone, Loren Estleman, Johnny Boggs, Don Coldsmith, and many more, share tales of the legends born out of the wild frontier. So sit a spell and listen to a good ol' yarn about Mark Twain's meeting with Buffalo Bill, a man who shoed horses for Jesse James, or a little known nugget about Cochise by the legendary Louis L'Amour. . .and for a time, you can find yourself riding those Lost Trails with the real people that make the legends of the West come alive today.

About the author

Louis L’Amour was one of the most famous Western storytellers of the twentieth century. The author of 89 novels, 14 collections of short stories, and 2 works of nonfiction, he was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal and North Dakota’s Roughrider Award, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan. By the time he passed away in 1988, his books had sold more than 200 million copies.

William W. Johnstone is the #1 bestselling Western writer in America and the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of hundreds of books, with over 50 million copies sold. Born in southern Missouri, he was raised with strong moral and family values by his minister father and tutored by his schoolteacher mother. He left school at fifteen to work in a carnival and then as a deputy sheriff before becoming a full-time writer.