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LONG RIDE HOME
Louis L'Amour
Bantam paperback edition I October 1989 L'Amour Hardcover Collection I October 1989
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CONTENTS
The Cactus Kid Pays a Debt3
Bad Place to Die19
That Triggernometry Tenderfoot41
The Town No Guns Could Tame59
Shandy Takes the Hook85
No Mans Man101
Ride or Start Shootin'127
Long Ride Home155
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AUTHOR'S NOTE THE CACTUS KID PAYS A DEBT
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have written several stories about the Cactus Kid. In this case some of the activity
takes place in San Francisco. Bull-Run Allen was a known man on the Barbary Coast
and vicinity and his place at the corner of Sullivan Alley and Pacific Street was
notorious. One-Ear Tim was also known and his ear was said to have been chewed off
during a physical arbitration with an unwilling robbery victim.
The Barbary Coast was known for its dives and for its multitude of ways of relieving
innocent victims oftheir funds.
However, once in a while they picked on the wrong man. The odds were against anybody
with money, and the sooner one got away from the area, the better.
Many of the tough joints along the water-front were built over the hulks of old ships
sunken in the bay to enlarge the land area. Most of the dives had a convenient trap-door
for the disposal of surplus bodies or through which shanghaiied sailors could be
taken by boat out to a waiting ship. It was not unusual; for a sight-seer to have
a drink in such a dive and wake up on a slow boat to China. It was often a one-way
trip.
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