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Ride the river

Pages
184
Published
1983
Language
English

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old Echo Sackett leaves her Tennessee home for the first time to claim an inheritance in Philadelphia. She soon discovers that city life is full of predators when a greedy lawyer tries to swindle her out of her family fortune. Echo must rely on her frontier skills and Sackett grit to outwit a murderous thief and make it back home alive.

About the author

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Louis L'Amour

Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American author. His books consisted primarily of Western fiction novels (though he called his work 'Frontier Stories'), however he also wrote historical fiction (The Walking Drum), science fiction (The Haunted Mesa), nonfiction (Frontier), as well as poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into movies. L'Amour's books remain popular, and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death all 105 of his existing works were...

Characters

Echo SackettProtagonist
James WhiteAntagonist
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