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THE TRAIL TO SEVEN PINES
A HOPALONG CASSIDY NOVEL
LOUIS L'AMOUR
BANTAM BOOKS NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON SYDNEY AUCKLAND
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THE TRAIL TO SEVEN PINES
A Bantam Book
Publishing History
Bantam hardcover edition published, June 1992 The Louis L'Amour Collection /June
1992
Previously published as Hopalong Cassidy and the Trail to Seven Pines by Louis L'Amour
(writing as Tex Burns).
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THE TRAIL TO SEVEN PINES
A HOPALONG CASSIDY NOVEL
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CHAPTER 1
Two Dead Men
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He
Lopalong Cassidy stopped his white gelding on the bald backbone of the ridge. No
soil covered the wind-swept sandstone, only a few gnarled cedars that seemed, as
is their way, to draw nourishment from the very rock itself. In this last hour before
sunset the air was of startling clarity, so much so that objects upon the mountainside