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THE RIDER OF THE RUBY HILLS
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PRINTING HISTORY Bantam edition / September 1986
The Louis L'Amour Collection / May
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Contents
Foreword
AUTHOR'S NOTE 1
The Rider of the Ruby Hills 3
AUTHOR'S NOTE 99
Showdown Trail 101
AUTHOR'S NOTE 185
A Man Called Trent 187
AUTHOR'S NOTE 289
The Trail to Peach Meadow Canyon 291
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FOREWORD
The stories presented in this volume are more bits of history from my early days
as a writer when my work was being published exclusively in magazines. The life of
a young writer is never easy, and at the time these stories were written it was a
struggle to eat more than occasionally. The book and movie sales did not come until
much later.
When World War II came along I was just beginning to see my work on the magazine
stands. But during the four years I was first in the Army, then the Tank Destroyers,
and later the Transportation Corps, I rarely found time to write. Returning home
from overseas duty, I found all had changed at the magazines. I literally had to
begin again by convincing a new crop of editors that I could write.
The stories I published back then were classified by their length. The "short-short,"