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marycatelli ([personal profile] marycatelli) wrote2025-04-04 04:17 pm

Last Stand at Papago Wells

Last Stand at Papago Wells by Louis L'Amour

Danger and adventure in the West.

The opening is a little disjointed, as various people are traveling hard in the desert. Our hero Logan Cates is traveling with no particular purpose, but others include two men (one a Pima) fleeing a town where they had to kill in self-defense, the posse from that town after them, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and the man she wants to marry, a nearly grown boy as the sole survivor of a raid because he was getting water, a military patrol, and a nearly grown girl who was captured by a warband.

But they all end up at the Papago Wells, trying to survive the attack. It involves command, disputes over whether a Pima can be trusted, a big-horn sheep, a woman arriving abruptly in mid-attack, the history behind the daughter, gold, and more.


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