The Empty Land: A Novel

Louis L'Amour

Oct 2004 · Bantam

About this ebook

For thousands of years the lonely canyon knew only wind and rain, wild animals, and an occasional native hunter. Then a trapper found a chunk of gold, and everything changed overnight.

In six days a town called Confusion appeared . . . and on the seventh it could disappear, consumed by the flames of lawlessness and violence. On one side are those who understand only brute force. On the other are men who want law and order but are ready to use a noose to achieve their ends. Between them stand Matt Coburn and Dick Felton: one a hardened realist, the other an idealist trying to dig a fortune from the muddy hillside. Outnumbered and outgunned, Felton and Coburn can’t afford to be outmaneuvered. For as the two unlikely allies confront corruption, betrayal, and murder in an attempt to tame a town where the discovery of gold can mean either the fortune of a lifetime or a sentence of death, they realize that any move could be their last.

Ratings and reviews

A different Western novel set in the gold strike country, of the taming of a wild new community which arose from a gold strike camp. A Well paced, action filled story that is easier to read with little waste as seen in some western novels. Mr L'Amour weaves an excellent story with a slight twist ending.

I have throughly enjoyed reading Lois L' Amour books since childhood by far my favorite author of western novels. Reading his books I can transport myself to the story.

Great plot. Lots of action. Well thought out characters

About the author

Our foremost storyteller of the American West, Louis L’Amour has thrilled a nation by chronicling the adventures of the brave men and woman who settled the frontier. There are more than three hundred million copies of his books in print around the world.