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Milo Talon
LOUIS L'AMOUR
BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND
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MILO TALON
A Bantam Book I August 1981 Louis L'Amour Hardcover Collection I February 1987
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To Leo and Cylvia-
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
The opening of the west had many aspects, exploration, the fur trade, wagon trains,
buffalo hunting, Indian wars, cattle ranching, mining, town sites, and not the least,
railroad construction.
The old maps can still be found as well as brochures full of glowing promise but
having little connection with reality. Some of these railroads were actually completed,
opening vast areas to development.
This is not a story of railroads but of people momentarily involved, of Milo Talon
and his search for a missing girl among people whose sole motivation was greed.
Milo Talon's mother, Em, was a Sackett and, in fact, an earlier adventure featuring
Milo and Em, A Man from the Broken Hills,
is grouped with the Sackett novels as published by Bantam. But beginning with this
novel and continuing on with other stories I have planned, I hope the Talons will
begin to stand on their own. You'll find more background on the Talon family in
Rivers West
also.
The country written about is mostly west and south of Pueblo, Colorado. If you visit
a town called Beulah you will be in what was once called Fisher's Hole. The North
Creek road was for some time the only practical route into the Hole. The route used
several times in this story was a horseback trail, although western people took wagons
wherever they needed them.
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Map by Alan McKnight
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ONE
The private car stood alone on a railroad siding bathed in the hot red blood of a
desert sunset. Stepping down from the saddle, I tied my horse to the hitching rail,
glanced again at the obvious opulence of the car, and took off my chaps and spurs,