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High upon the ridge, Pod Griffin wiped the sweat from his hands and took a new grip on the rifle. Hopalong Cassidy was less than four hundred yards away and coming nearer. Pod Griffin lifted the rifle and cradled the heavy butt against his shoulder. He took a deep breath, put the sights on Hopalong's temple, held his breath, then fired! Hopalong slumped suddenly, then slid from the saddle and fell into the sand...

Hopalong Cassidy is one of frontier fiction's most popular, enduring, and memorable figures. His exploits in books, in movies, and on television have made him one of the great heroes of the American West. Louis L'Amour's magnificent lifework has earned this beloved author a permanent place as the West's foremost storyteller. Now Hopalong Cassidy and Louis L'Amour are together again. In this, the third of four Cassidy novels written by L'Amour, the legendary saddleman rides straight into an ambush in the West's untamed territories.

The Riders of High Rock

Hopalong rode into the cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead.

Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he's sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt's about to learn that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy, you better make sure he never gets up.

When Hopalong Cassidy creator Clarence E. Mulford retired, he chose the young Louis L'Amour to carry on the Hopalong tradition in four unforgettable novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Rustlers of West Fork and The Trail to Seven Pines. Long out of print

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and now published for the first time under the authors own name, The Riders of High Rock is a classic tale of adventure and rugged character that brings the Old West to life as only Louis L'Amour can. Vividly re-creating the dangers of life on the trail, the mysterious beauty of the land, and the often violent code by which men lived and died, this early novel makes eminently clear that in the spirit of the American frontier L'Amour found his greatest voice.

LOUIS L'AMOUR is the only novelist in history to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He has published eighty-nine novels, seventeen short-story collections, two works of nonfiction, a memoir (Education of a Wandering Man), and a volume of poetry, Smoke from This Altar. There are more than 225 million copies of Louis L'Amour's books in print worldwide. Mr. L'Amour's fourth and final Hopalong Cassidy novel. Trouble Shooter, will be published by Bantam Books in 1994.

Front cover art й 1993 Steve Assel

Author photo й Michael Pizzuto, taken in 1987 at the L'Amour family Colorado ranch

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High upon the ridge, Pod Griffin wiped the sweat from his hands and took a new grip on the rifle. Hopalong Cassidy was less than four hundred yards away and coming nearer. Pod Griffin lifted the rifle and cradled the heavy butt against his shoulder. He took a deep breath, put the sights on Hopalongs temple, held his breath, then fired! Hopalong slumped suddenly, then slid from the saddle and fell into the sand...

Hopalong Cassidy is one of frontier fiction's most popular, enduring, and memorable figures. His exploits in books, in movies, and on television have made him one of the great heroes of the American West. Louis L'Amour's magnificent lifework has earned this beloved author a permanent place as the West's foremost storyteller. Now Hopalong Cassidy and Louis L'Amour are together again. In this, the third of four Cassidy novels written by L'Amour, the legendary saddleman rides straight into an ambush in the West's untamed territories.

The Riders of High Rock

Hopalong rode into the cattle country just east of the California line looking for his old friend Red Connors. He found Red holed up in a mountain cave with a bullet in his side and a story to tell. The ranchers around Tascotal had been losing their stock, and when Red caught the rustlers in the act, they hunted him down, shot him, and left him for dead.

Jack Bolt, a savage, ruthless killer, has brought in a tough band of hardcases to run his operation. And now he's sent them out to take care of the one man who stands in his way: Hopalong Cassidy. But Bolt's about to learn that if you shoot down a man like Cassidy. you better make sure he never gets up.